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Battery Banks & Over Current Protection

Marine Battery Banks & Over-Current Protection A 300A (MRBF)Battery Terminal Mounted Fuse by Blue Sea Systems In this article we will discuss fuse [...]

Drop-In LiFePO4 Batteries – Be an Educated Consumer

Lead is Dead (almost) You may be wondering why I am saying lead is dead ?The answer to that is simple; lead acid [...]

Testing the Balmar SG200 Self-Learning Battery Monitor

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How we Tested the New Balmar SG200 Self Learning Battery Monitor Site Plug: Please help support MarineHowTo.com by purchasing from us. MarineHowTo.com cannot [...]

Making Sense of Automatic Charging Relays

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Making Sense of the ACR WARNING: The ACR's in this article are not for use with LiFePO4 Batteries! What is an ACR? An [...]

Programming a Balmar External Voltage Regulator

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Preface This article contains three separate videos that show how to physically program Balmar regulators. The videos are meant to be watched in [...]

Installation & Orientation of Flooded Batteries on Boats

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Port to Starboard Orientation This photo is simulating a sailboat heeling with flooded batteries. For years I’ve wanted to write this article, but [...]

How Fast Can an AGM Battery be Charged?

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Baseline Discharge 49.3% SOC PREFACE: This article looks at the *charging times & achieved state of charge of an AGM battery in multiple scenarios. 1- 50% SOC [...]

Winter Battery Storage & Self Discharge Characteristics

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December 11, 2012 After having a discussion with one of my customers, about leaving his battery charger running on-board all winter, a practice [...]

Under-Load Battery Voltage vs. SoC

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Battery After 20 Hour Capacity Test = 95.69 Ah Capacity For this test I wanted to: Show the relationship of loaded voltage to [...]

Battery Melt Down Narrowly Averted

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Note The Melting of The Battery Case (originally published July 2012) The connections to your batteries matter. How you make them, how you [...]

LiFePO4 Batteries On Boats

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LiFePO4 On Boats The base of this article was written a number of years ago (2010) but this does not mean the information [...]

What is a Deep Cycle Battery?

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Light Cycle vs. Deeper Cycle NOTE: This article deals with FLOODED marine batteries, not AGM or GEL batteries. The Problem: The problem, as [...]

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