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Originally Posted by Dean
As I recall from my Battery research, you can start outgassing and overcharging before 16 volts... Voltage is not important up to 95+% charge or so, but once a wet Lead Acid battery hits full charge, you don't want to feed it much more than 13 volts to avoid excessive gassing and possible plate damage.
I wonder how much of that power can be attributed to the condenser/regulator... I'd bet it is close to 100% of it. To bad many of us can't use it in our Autocross classes.
What we need is some monster diodes that allow huge amonts of current out of the battery, but a real smart charger, preferably with soem pulse-anti-sulfating technology on the charging side.
Where are those LEDs Shawn was going to use when you need them.  \
Forgot to mention... Thanks for the cool data. Good work. |
I should have said on our cars, IE wrx and sti. they will never sit @ 95% charged. even with everything off and the engine running the battery wont get to 90%. unless it gets to 16 volts. I have a mess of data from all this. I measured dam near everything. heh. Also diodes increase resistance. That would be bad.
That sucks that you cant use in autox. what class does it put you into ?