Hans, if you want a long life for the acid gel (VRLA hopefully, beter lead-carbon but I doubt you bought that one) you need to discharge it at max 50% ( better only to 80%) of it's maximum capacity. Deep discharge is the accumulator dead no matter the lies written on battery datasheet datasheet ( 800 cycles and deep discharge). Also check carefully the floating voltage ( near zero consumption) to not exceed 13.3-13.6V. Lead-acid gel has the ugly behaviour of slow voltage decrease during gel drying. At the same time the current decreases too. Serious charge-discharge cycles are better than float discharge. Be happy. You have now sun power for the puppets!
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 3:15 AM hans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Here is the solar panel I will be using. I just went back to 12 volts and > a small lead acid battery. > > One motor drives the axis that is parallel to the Earth's axis and > follows the sun. Actually the screen should go 24 degrees up (June) and 24 > degrees down (December) but I did some measurements and the gain is too > small for me to do anything about it. > > Anyway, Jal lets things run smoothly again and now we just have to wait > and see if the weather gods accept this thing. > > regards > > Hans > [image: zon_set.jpg] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/1daba767-6631-47b2-aca7-8272c214a92bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/1daba767-6631-47b2-aca7-8272c214a92bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CAM%2Bj4qu94_XFbiv532TisNXQ9L8fcOQtNZZwh%2BB9SwakA6ndqA%40mail.gmail.com.
