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To: djf

NO.

Auto batteries are not designed to take a “Trickle Charge” and will fail fairly quick.

I deal with UPS in our Data Centers and you need a Marine Battery that will take a trickle charge.

Short answer and I’m not an engineer. That’s what my smart guys tell me and since they are engineers I go with what they say.


6 posted on 11/08/2012 2:09:22 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

That is very true, car batteries are more like a capacitor than a battery. Slow charge/discharge sulfates them quickly, and they don’t like being discharged to below 10 volts very many times.


8 posted on 11/08/2012 2:40:26 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: Vendome; djf
you need a Marine Battery that will take a trickle charge.

Correct. CCA is the opposite of deep cycle. Lots of power up front but not good for continuous load.

If longer power output is needed, the deep cycle battery is the way to go.

11 posted on 11/08/2012 9:15:48 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 1)
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