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Steve Toomey
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 7:28 pm: | |
I used to work in the book distribution industry, and we used electric forklifts extensively. We had everything from 500 lb. "walkie" batteries to 5000 lb "man-up wire guided turret trucks." I know much about the requisite charging, cooling and use cycles of these batteries.
Here's the questions for those who are battery savvy. Can I take a 24 volt battery and "split it" so that I have essentially 2-12 volt batteries??
Since each cell is 2 VDC and they are connected with "bus bar" type connectors between the cells, my thought is to make two batteries in one case. Since weight is not really problem, and doing my conversion "my way" uses mostly 12 VDC for boondocking, I could have one "battery" in use and one battery potentially charging at all times.
In the places I worked we had some batteries in use that were used at least 10 hrs per day 6 days a week for over 10 years, and still in very good shape. They were all on a fairly strict maintenance schedule, but were used hard.
I appreciate your thoughts.
PAbusnut |
motorcoach1
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
the answer yes, just reconfigure the bus bars.and have a good charger. They are designed to be reconfigured for multi use. but real heavy |
FAST FRED
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 5:59 am: | |
These batts are designed for REAL work , many many deep discharge cycles and are a great choice ,
IF you can handle the hight & weight.
Due to their heavy use , ONLY new batts should be considered.
With a good monitoring system and an engine driven alternator for recharge they would be a delight in a coach that needs BIG DC.
FAST FRED |
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