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Subject: station battery maintaining
From: Barry Lotz barry_lotz@.............
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:34:50 -0700 (PDT)


Hi All
I have got my station components to work on 12 vts DC thru the use of DC/DC 
converters.My thought was that the DC/DC converters are more efficient than wall  
warts and a UPS and the battery would last longer on a power outage.  I would 
like to have the system  run on a battery with something to maintain the battery 
health while under an approx 1 to 2  amp load. . The problem is what to use to 
keep the battery charged but also healthy. I tried a 1.5 vt charger/maintainer 
which worked for ~ 2 years. I am not sure whether it's the battery or the 
maintainer which is malfunctioning. I can go into what I have done recently . My 
question is would a possible scheme be to run a 6 amp charger on a wall timer 
work to cycle the battery and prevent sulfation?  Maybe shutting off the charger 
for say 8 hrs each day then put back on a 6 amp charge would work. Alternatively 
is there a product  I could use to have battery maintain charge and capacity for 
a reasonably long period of time.

 Regards
Barry
Hi All
I have got my station components to work on 12 vts DC thru the use of DC/DC converters.My thought was that the DC/DC converters are more efficient than wall warts and a UPS and the battery would last longer on a power outage.  I would like to have the system  run on a battery with something to maintain the battery health while under an approx 1 to 2  amp load. . The problem is what to use to keep the battery charged but also healthy. I tried a 1.5 vt charger/maintainer which worked for ~ 2 years. I am not sure whether it's the battery or the maintainer which is malfunctioning. I can go into what I have done recently . My question is would a possible scheme be to run a 6 amp charger on a wall timer work to cycle the battery and prevent sulfation?  Maybe shutting off the charger for say 8 hrs each day then put back on a 6 amp charge would work. Alternatively is there a product  I could use to have battery maintain charge and capacity for a reasonably long period of time.
 
Regards
Barry

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