Speaking of not draining your battery past a certain point---how do
you determine what that point is? I recently charged up my batteries
and after a few hours, they both settled down to 12.75. Now that I
know the fully charged voltage, how do I determine the fully
discharged voltage so that I can find the voltage number that
represents 50 - 80% of discharge? I've seen a few charts but the
numbers don't match my numbers...

Jeff / San Anselmo
On Jun 9, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

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> Date:    Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:38:27 EDT
> From:    Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Battery Woes/Choice
>
> In a message dated 08/06/2008 1:31:31 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:
>
> The less  a battery is drained/discharged the longer it will last.
> Strictly
> speaking,  flooded batteries are not designed for repeated deep
> discharges,
> so when  used in this manner, they fail prematurely. Frank was
> acutely aware
> of this  fact, so chose to buy from a place that had a great warranty
> service, as  did I.
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> You  do know that there is a good way to extend the life of the
> standard
> automotive  starting flooded cell battery ?  Koolatron and others
> sell a limiter
> that will shut off the drain on a battery once it reaches critical
> levels
> preset  by the manufacturer of the gadget.  I forget all the details
> of it but I
> got mine from Kootatron and it was made for their fridges to keep
> owners from
> wrecking the batteries in their vehicles.  See the Koolatron website
> for
> details.
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> Cheers,
>
> Frank  Condelli