Julian Tether brought next idea : > In message > <[email protected]>, > Bruce Napier <[email protected]> writes >> I should have made it clear in my earlier post that I was talking >> about ordinary wet cells. >> >> It's slowly getting easier to find places where we can overnight on a >> shoreline, thus putting in around 12 hours more charge, but it's >> still unlikely to be more than once every couple of months at best, >> so not enough to hold off the sulphation. > > 14.4v is just not enough to get rid of sulphation > on my charger there s a separate equalisation charge that I do about > once every couple of months and that is at 16.2v. > This means that it has to be done when all lights etc. are off so I > normally do it overnight. > > Any decent charge will allow you to do this.
When I worked for a living we use to do this for 4 hours every 2 weeks, as you say all load has to be removed, fine when each system has two sets of batteries, duty and standby -- Brian traveling on Harnser http://nbharnser.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
