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Mainly there are three types of a solar battery, The Lead
Acid, the Gel and AGM, All three types need to be deep
cycle. You can go to the local auto parts house and get a
Cranking battery but it will be short lived. Cranking batteries
are not built to be drained deeply repeatedly. The use is to
start your car, RV or boat. It has thin plates and is meant for
a boost of power all at once, then recharged immediately.
Acid, the Gel and AGM, All three types need to be deep
cycle. You can go to the local auto parts house and get a
Cranking battery but it will be short lived. Cranking batteries
are not built to be drained deeply repeatedly. The use is to
start your car, RV or boat. It has thin plates and is meant for
a boost of power all at once, then recharged immediately.
What types of a battery is used with a solar panel or wind system?
Deep Cycle Solar Battery, AGM Gel Solar Electric Batteries |
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| A Solar Electric Deep Cycle Battery is normally discharged slowly over hours or days before being recharged, It will not provide a large boost of power like other types. Such as a cranking battery would. However don’t drop a wrench across the terminals. Deep cycle do have a lot of spark in them. Wet lead acid solar battery -ver- Gel and AGM batteries in maintenance and cost. This is an easy one to cover. You have to check the lead acid type every few months to make sure they are not low on distilled water. You do not have these issues with a gel or agm battery. But you do have to spend twice the money to buy a solar gel or agm. Figure 10 lead acid batteries at 85 dollars each verses 10 gel at 170 dollars each. It is kind of like getting paid 850 dollars to check the battery water 4 times a year. Not bad wages for 4 hours work per year. You can find factory battery watering devices for your solar battery which takes care of watering for you. However they cost enough to just go ahead and buy a gel type. A good brand name for solar deep cycle is Trojan. There are many other battery brands that would work great. But you might come closer to finding this one local. And save the shipping cost. Danger of spills and swelling when over charging or moving your solar battery. A big do not, is do not charge a gel with a charger set for a regular or deep cycle. The gel battery will swell and the gel will come out. You can not put the gel back in once it is out. Over charging wet cell lead acid batteries will cause them to bubble out and will be all over everything and battery fumes could cause an explosion or flash fire. I recommend you build a box for your batteries. Put the batteries in it with nothing else but the connection cables on the terminals and a fuse. No electrical devices in the box at all. Install a flue in the top to allow the fumes to escape out the top and outside of the building. Never ever put and inverter or charger or controller in the same space or box with a lead acid. The fumes will ignite. Thermal runaway in simple terms means the battery is too hot and over charging and are going to explode. I have never seen this happen. Maybe a good water sealed battery box to put your solar battery in that could be filled with water by the fire department? Best thing to do is shut off the inverter and any charging devices and call your fire department and Stay away from them. Heat and cold has a large effects on a solar battery. It takes extra power to charge when batteries are cold and less when it is warm. Solar panels charge better when they are cold which helps in cold weather. Some people put the batteries inside their home to keep them from freezing. I’ll go with gel inside a home but not wet lead acid. Better to have a building for them not connected to your home. Solar deep cycle batteries come in all sizes from 5 AH to over 300 AH. In another area of this site I was talking about the system in an overview and I spoke of what size of a solar battery bank to get and how to determine this. This depends on how much power usage you will require. It all falls together with no need for a degree in astrophysics or complicated math formulas or charts and graphs. Do the math on how much battery power is required to run your load for 24 hours in watts. Divide the watts by DC voltage (12 volt battery, 24 volt battery..) and you have the amps you need. Double that for 50% rate of discharge and you have the battery size in amp hours. Size the inverter to cover the heaviest load you will put on it at any one time. Extra solar batteries and solar panels are always a help. |
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