Re: Stus-List Adding new battery to existing battery bank

2019-04-23 Thread sender via CnC-List
We think of a battery as being a pure reservoir of power. In actual fact, a battery is a source of power that has an internal resistance that changes with the state of charge and age/condition of the battery. For this reason if you have a bank of batteries wired in parallel (as is done in a house

Stus-List Adding new battery to existing battery bank

2019-04-22 Thread Bruce Whitmore via CnC-List
Hello all, Without getting into a lot of details, I have the ability to add a 3rd battery to our existing house bank.  Those batteries are coming up on 2 years old.  Can I add a new 3rd battery of the same type (lead acid), and of about the same capacity to the bank, even though the other batter