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• re: deep cycle battery
  Historical mailing list - Matt Goike
  Mon, 06 May 1996 12:43:08 -0400
  ...Capacity: ------ ---------------------------- 2.3A 46 amp hours (20 hours) 4.2A 42 amp hours (10 hours) 5.1A 40.8 amp hours (8 hours) 7...
• Re: 1 Solar Panel: Alternate Charging Between 2 Aux. Batteries?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:19:23 -0400
  ...t = 20 x (85/(25x20))^k = 71 amp-hours best case and 50 amp-hours worst case. For two batteries in parallel at the...
• Re: 81 maximum battery dimensions
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Fri, 03 May 1996 09:12:41 -0700
  ...Capacity: ------ ---------------------------- 2.3A 46 amp hours (20 hours) 4.2A 42 amp hours (10 hours) 5.1A 40.8 amp hours (8 hours) 7...
• Re: [retitled thread] Odyessy batteries from GoWesty, other deep cy
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:39:04 -0700
  ...Kirkland group 41 battery from Costco, warranteed for 3 years with no pro-rating, cost $60 CND ! Way better deal and has 110 amp...
• Re: 1 Solar Panel: Alternate Charging Between 2 Aux. Batteries?
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"
  Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:01:34 -0700
  ...Your battery is rated 85 amp-hours at 20-hour > rate. > > t = 20 x (85/(7x20))^1.1 = 11.55 hours, or effectively 81...
• Re: Newbie battery questions
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Tue, 15 May 2007 15:22:25 -0600
  ...Bigger is better with batteries--at least in amp-hours and aux batteries, but figure what you need. I have an Odyssey 925 which...
• Re: [retitled thread] Odyessy batteries from GoWesty, other deep cy
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:09:44 -0700
  ...Kirkland group 41 battery from Costco, warranteed for 3 > years > with no pro-rating, > cost $60 CND ! Way better deal and has 110 amp...
• Re: Vitrifrigo/Truck Fridge power usage
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:01:11 -0400
  ...Current draw on 12 volt is 2.5 amps > (average) with an average daily usage of 22 amp-hours." Don't compare apples and...
• Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
  Historical mailing list - Karl
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:02:03 -0400
  Sorry, I meant multiply by .2 33.6 amp-hours per day. mcneely4@cox.net wrote: > 168 x 0.2 equals 33.6 . 168...
• Re: deep cycle: best place to put? best size?
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:17:48 -0600
  ...This gets 88 amp-hours of deep cycle power. This was beat to death last year and nobody could find a setup with more...
• Re: Lead Acid Battery Bank and Solar Charging
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:08:28 -0700
  Well, I'm guessing 30 - 40 amp hours each battery. Does that help? Thanks, Steven On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:40 AM...
• Re: [vanagon] Re: [Syncro] 2nd battery in a vanagon for lights, heat etc.
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:29:11 -0700
  ...but 2 6v batteries that add up to the same Amp Hours >as a 12 volt battery is rated for should give the same...
• Fwd: Re: Norcold refrigerator + modest solar rig, a report [LVC]
  Historical mailing list - Mark C
  Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:37:21 -0700
  ...Each >>> T105 will provide 225 amp-hours, for a total of 450 amp hours. Two Group >>> 31's will give you about 200 amp...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:21:53 -0500
  ...Kudos to anyone that finds out otherwise. > > The '06 Prius battery is only 6.5 amp hours rating. Of course that's > at 288...
• Re: Battery Reserve Capacity Calculations - 2nd Posting
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:40:21 -0600
  ...124 > Capacity (C/2 rate) - Amp Hours: 52 > Capacity (C20 rate) - Amp Hours: 65 > > Am I correct in assuming that a 10 Amp Per...
• Re: deep cycle: best place to put? best size?
  Historical mailing list - RiffOil
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:04:09 -0700
  ...This gets 88 amp-hours of deep > cycle power. > > This was beat to death last year and nobody could find a > setup with more...
• Battery Reserve Capacity Calculations
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:12:16 -0600
  ...124 Capacity (C/2 rate) - Amp Hours: 52 Capacity (C20 rate) - Amp Hours: 65 Am I correct in assuming that a 10 Amp Per...
• Re: Vitrifrigo/Truck Fridge power usage
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:53:26 -0700
  ...Current draw on 12 volt is 2.5 amps >> (average) with an average daily usage of 22 amp-hours." > > Don't compare apples and...
• Re: Fwd: Re: Norcold refrigerator + modest solar rig, a report [LVC]
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:29:46 -0400
  ...Each > >>> T105 will provide 225 amp-hours, for a total of 450 amp hours. > Two Group > >>> 31's will give you about 200 amp...
• Battery Reserve Capacity Calculations - 2nd Posting
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:04:19 -0600
  ...124 Capacity (C/2 rate) - Amp Hours: 52 Capacity (C20 rate) - Amp Hours: 65 Am I correct in assuming that a 10 Amp Per...
• Re: Aux battery - venting precautions
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Sat, 02 Nov 1996 19:31:57 -0800
  ...And they put out about 33 amp hours. > This was my choice too (small,safe,deeeep cycle, adequate amp/hours). One word of warning...
• Input on Prestone jumpstart battery?
  Historical mailing list - Max/Joyce Wellhouse
  Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:49:51 -0500
  ...Fan mail from some Flounder? Suposed to have 400cca and 17 amp hours. How does this compare to the optima? The prestone unit is...
• Re: Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Peter Zendzian
  Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:09:12 -1000
  ...they are rated at 180 amp hours. I have considered switching to flooded cell to get 225 amp hours, but still deciding. They are...
• Re: About them Norcold refrigerators
  Historical mailing list - Otmar
  Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:19:25 -0700
  ...So you would be down 24 amp hours. Now you run your engine with a 95 Amp alternator on it. (What do the Vanagons...
• Re: Radio Retrofit
  Historical mailing list - S Sittservl
  Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:23:32 EDT
  ...battery capacity is 35 amp hours, radio draws 50 milliamps. 35 amp hours / .050 amps = 700 hours, or about 4 weeks. This is only...
• Re: About them Norcold refrigerators
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:02:04 -0400
  ...Typically, at the 13.8 volts, a battery will charge at ~ 20-30 amp hours up to ~ 75% state of charge, then the rate...
• Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:54:52 -0400
  ...Do you mean amp-hours per day, or amps per hour per day (which is what you wrote)? Just making sure. On Sat, Sep...
• Re: Understanding Amp Hours
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:01:11 -0500
  ...So the question is not just how many amp hours are available from the battery, but how many amp hours are sustainable above say...
• Re: Pure Sinewave Inverter
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:15:57 -0800
  ...totaling 225 amp hours. Mark, can you provide a link to the specs you are looking at for these batteries? I'm having a...
• Re: Vitrifrigo/Truck Fridge power usage
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:07:48 -0400
  ...OK - 2.5 multiplied by 8 hours run time per day = 20 amp-hours. Karl www.westyventures.com >>> So where did I get the...
• Auxiliary battery set-up for Vanagon $ For Sale $
  Historical mailing list - Danny C.
  Tue, 18 May 2010 14:05:51 -0700
  ...Most full sized batterys are only 44 amp hours each. I paid $40.00 each and $20.00 each for shipping. So I paid...
• Re: Aux battery - venting precautions
  Historical mailing list - Ron Lussier
  Fri, 01 Nov 1996 11:49:33 -0800
  ...the >one i bought has like 24 amp/hours reserve which is not much. BUT it will >allow me to run accessory circuits for...
• Re: Understanding Amp Hours
  Historical mailing list - Dave Vickery
  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:58:28 +0000
  ...Understanding Amp Hours >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:43:35 -0700 > >The answer to another question here on the list raised this question...
• Re: Printing w HP1020 off a Deep Cycle Battery
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 9 Oct 2006 16:39:55 -0700
  ...two batteries of 110 amp hours would bring me to 220 amp hours... but then I get mixed up on whether to join in...
• Electrical Consumption & Battery Recharge Calculations
  Historical mailing list - Larry Chase
  Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:49:26 -0700
  ...124 Capacity (C/2 rate) - Amp Hours: 52 Capacity (C20 rate) - Amp Hours: 65 Total Amp Hours with 2 batteries = 104 Needed Amp Hours...
• Re: Vitrifrigo temp data
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 7 Jul 2013 18:33:22 -0400
  ...Watts are amps times volts and watt-hours are amp-hours times volts. So assuming 12.0 volts, that would be ~23 amp-hours...
• Re: [vanagon] Re: [Syncro] 2nd battery in a vanagon for lights, heat etc.
  Historical mailing list - Terry K.
  Sat, 9 Feb 2002 09:33:41 -0600
  ...The amp hours does not depend on what type of battery it is, it simply depends on how the battery is rated-- And if...
• Re: vanagon solar
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:08:33 -0700
  ...but if you're camped away from power and you want to use your lap top that is about 8 amp hours per day...
• "Watt's up" battery monitor
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:03 -0900
  ...The display reads out the actual amperage being drawn, as well as watt's being used, and then total amp hours. Has a few...
• Re: Lead Acid Battery Bank and Solar Charging
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:40:31 -0600
  What's the total amp hours of the batteries? On 15/10/2018 11:54 AM, Steven Johnson wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a...
• Solar Power
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:21:57 -0800
  ...I have 125 amp hours in one battery, and then an additional 44 amp hours in two other batteries. The only drawback to multiple...
• Re: Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stevens
  Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:01:12 -0600
  ...I usually connect 3 of them in parallel to get > 66 amp hours for around $150 worth of batteries and shipping. Much > better deal...
• New electric power option?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:43:59 -0800
  ...To convert from watt-hours to 12-volt lead-acid amp-hours, divide by 12.6 (ish), so 400 watt-hours will roughly provide...
• Battery
  Historical mailing list - Bill N
  Sat, 29 Jun 2002 02:21:08 -0700
  ...will last forever, has 5,000 cold cranking amps, 100,000 amp hours, and is no bigger than a video tape. I am willing...
• Re: CDN Tire: Two 6 volt vs One 12 volt battery question
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:17:16 -0700
  ...The 6-hour rating of 150 amp hours is under heavy golf cart use. In Malcolm's application, which requires fewer amps/hour than...
• Re: understanding amp hours
  Historical mailing list - Bob Mac
  Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:44:48 -0400
  If you really want to know, get the book called "managing 12 volts" I don't remember the author but a search of the...
• Re: Trojan 31 AGM battery, under the back seat
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:23:22 -0700
  Larry, I'm going with the AGM (sealed) battery instead of the less expensive/more amp hours deep cycle so that I don't...
• Re: Group-41 deep cycle gel-cel battery -payback
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:24:56 -0700
  ...At 07:39 PM 4/17/97 -0500, you wrote: >Optima Deep Cycle Battery (not gel, new spiral wound technology) >52 amp hours >700...
• Re: Pure Sine Wave Inverter
  Historical mailing list - M'obeechi
  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:27:04 -0800
  ...cause my three planned batteries would only combine to be 300 amp-hours. I don't think I want eight batteries, unless I want...
• Re: Pure Sine Wave Inverter
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:36:18 -0500
  ...hundred thousand amps, so you would want about eight hundred thousand amp-hours of capacity. I take it this is one of those stretch...
• Re: Run time to charge Aux battery
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:27:13 -0700
  ...168 /0.2 equals 840 . > > Do you mean amp-hours per day, or amps per hour per day (which is what > you wrote)? > > Just...
• Re: Battery Reserve Capacity Calculations - 2nd Posting
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:28:32 -0400
  ...124 >Capacity (C/2 rate) - Amp Hours: 52 >Capacity (C20 rate) - Amp Hours: 65 > >Am I correct in assuming that a 10 Amp Per...
• Re: Group-41 deep cycle gel-cel battery -payback
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:58:38 -0300 (ADT)
  >Here is what I came up with. > >Optima Deep Cycle Battery (not gel, new spiral wound technology) >52 amp hours >700 or 750 cranking...
• Re: Lead Acid Battery Bank and Solar Charging
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:53:29 -0600
  ...On 15/10/2018 1:08 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: > Well, I'm guessing 30 - 40 amp hours each battery. > > Does that help? > > Thanks...
• Re: "Watt's up" battery monitor
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:43:57 -0800
  ...The display reads out the actual amperage being drawn, as well as watt's being used, and then total amp hours. Has a few...
• Re: New electric power option?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:39:36 -0500
  ...To convert > from watt-hours to 12-volt lead-acid amp-hours, divide by 12.6 (ish), so > 400 watt-hours will roughly provide...
• Re: Understanding Amp Hours
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:46:21 -0400
  ...Understanding Amp Hours > A real world example. A new Sears diehard 650 CCA aux battery > will last 4 > hours until completely dead running the...
• Re: Microwave oven in Westy?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:21:21 -0400
  ...Conventional wisdom for that would be that you should have 400 amp-hours capacity in regular deep-cycle batteries, or at least 300 amp...
• Re: Prius question with vanagon content
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:00:32 -0400
  ...The '06 Prius battery is only 6.5 amp hours rating. Of course that's at 288 volts. The battery weighs 150 pounds and...
• Re: Vitrifrigo temp data
  Historical mailing list - Troy
  Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:56:28 -0800
  ...I guess that amp hours is something I understand a little bit better, as the battery is listed in amp hr capacity. The deep...