New question. What happens when you might forever overcharge a CAR battery with 30 mA (during daylight).
I added an unregulated solar panel that typically produces only 30 mA to a very remote cabin car battery deep in the woods. The charge rate will give a 2 hour per week use of the lights. But what happens if no one uses the cabin for months? NiCd's can absorb such small overcharge, but I assume Lead Acid will everntully be dried out? Lets assume the car battery is 30 Amp hours. Therefor the daylight trickle charge is at a 0.001C rate. Probably barely makes up for self discharge. OK, now add in the fact that for maybe an hour a day, the sun will directly hit the panel and the charge will be 500 mA Bob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160612/9558e82e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
