>(a battery means a collection of cells) That makes things a lot easier when thinking about it, thanks!
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Short answer is yes. > > Looks like your load is about 5.2 amps. > Your battery is really a single 24 volt battery with 12 aH of capacity. > > It lasts 2.333 hours. > > 12 amp hours/2.333 hours = 5.14 amps > > If you have 8 batts (really meaning 4 batteries consisting of two 24 volt > 12 aH battery each (a battery means a collection of cells)) > that is 48 aH @ 24 volts total. > > 48/5.14=9.32 hours. > > Or, doing it using the preferred watt hour method: > 24 volts x 5.2 amps = 125 watt load. > Your batts are 12Vx12aH or 144 Watt Hours each. > So you have 288 Watt Hours of battery. > > 288/125=2.3 hours of run time. > > If you have 8 of these 144 watt hour batterys, you have a total of 1152 > watt hours of storage. (1.152 kWh or about 14 cents worth of power in my > neighborhood). > > 1152/125=9.216 hours of run time. > > *From:* Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, May 02, 2016 8:00 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Additional run time through batteries > > I have a 24v site that uses two 12v 12ah batteries. I get about 2h 20m of > run time. > > Does it stand to reason if I get eight batteries my run time would be 8+ > hours? Is sizing linear? > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 >
