Bruce is right. QST had an article last month for a programmable LED to monitor battery voltage. It is easy to make. You should monitor the resting voltage to provide some margin from over discharging
Ariel NY4G Sent from my iPhone On Jun 14, 2013, at 7:17 PM, "Bruce Beford" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Is this more or less accurate, or have I missed something? Thanks. > > You missed the fact that you really can't/shouldn't try to discharge the > full capacity of the battery. The life span of SLA batteries for instance, > are greatly reduced if you routinely go to greater than 50% depth of > discharge. > 73 > bruce > N1RX > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
