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  • Battery Banks & Over Current Protection
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Battery Banks & Over Current Protection

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

  • Drop-In LiFePO4 Batteries – Be an Educated Consumer
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Drop-In LiFePO4 Batteries – Be an Educated Consumer

Lead is Dead (almost) Warning: This article is long and detailed. It may require two reads so the nuances and detail are not [...]

  • Testing the Balmar SG200 Self-Learning Battery Monitor
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Testing the Balmar SG200 Self-Learning Battery Monitor

Tags: Balmar, Balmar SG200, Battery Monitor, Smart Shunt, Smartgauge|

The New Balmar SG200   A Self Learning Battery Monitor Site Plug:This site is 100% reader supported!AFILLIATE DISCLAIMER BUY SG200 & ACCESSORIES - [...]

  • Making Sense of Automatic Charging Relays
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Making Sense of Automatic Charging Relays

Tags: ARC, Automatic Charging Relayss, Combiner, Relays, VSR. Voltage Sensing Relay|

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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Programming a Balmar External Voltage Regulator

Tags: Marine Alternators & Voltage Regulators|

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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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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How Fast Can an AGM Battery be Charged?

Tags: Marine Batteries|

  TEST EQUIPMENT USED IN THIS ARTICLE BUY MHT RECOMMENDED TEST EQUIPMENT - AMAZON Baseline Discharge 49.3% SOC PREFACE: This article looks at the *charging times & [...]

  • Winter Battery Storage & Self Discharge Characteristics
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Winter Battery Storage & Self Discharge Characteristics

Tags: Flooded Deep Cycle, GEL & LiFePO4, Marine Batteries - AGM|

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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Under-Load Battery Voltage vs. SoC

Tags: Marine Batteries|

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

Tags: Marine Batteries|

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 Batteries On Boats

Tags: Marine LiFePO4 Batteries|

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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What is a Deep Cycle Battery?

Tags: Marine Batteries|

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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