John Harries // Lithium Batteries, Small Boats & More
On the Wind Sailing
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How to Charge a Lead Acid Battery
With lead acid, as you're charging, if the batteries at say, 50 or 60 % state o charge, when you really want to start charging, ah, the voltage will continue to rise fairly regularly. When it hits a 14 point four, the regulator then censes that 14 point four and says, ok, i've got to cut back the current. With lithium, that doesn't apply. You can leave it at 14 four for hours and hours and hours, even after it's fully charged, and you won't hurt iti. The battery self manages that's way e won't ac accept that amount of current. So why make a gues when there are perfectly good systems
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