Making Sense of Automatic Charging Relays
Making Sense of the ACR WARNING: ACR's are not for use with LiFePO4 Batteries! What is an ACR? An ACR is nothing more [...]
Programming a Balmar External Voltage Regulator
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
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?
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
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
After 20 Hour Capacity Test = 95.69 Ah Capacity For this test I wanted to: Show the relationship of loaded voltage to SoC [...]
Battery Melt Down Narrowly Averted
Note The Melting of The Battery Case (originally published July 2012) The connections to your batteries matter. How you make them, how you [...]
DIY LiFePO4 Batteries On Boats
DIY LiFePo4 On Boats Last edit;3/26/23:The base of this article was written a number of years ago (2010) but this does not mean [...]
What is a Deep Cycle Battery?
Light Cycle vs. Deeper Cycle NOTE: This article deals with FLOODED marine batteries, not AGM or GEL batteries. The Problem: The problem, as [...]