CRLLS
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Lead acid batteries are funny. Their usable life varies so much with seemingly no rhyme or reason. I have flooded cell lead acid batteries last only a few years in my back-up sump pump. I have had lead acid car batteries last over 11 years when the battery post fell off the battery. I was the project manager of a UPS design that used 10 12V lead acid AGM batteries in series. We took lots of run-time data on the prototype and then put it on a rack in the factory running under no load for over 5 years. When we took it down, we retested it. It ran within a few seconds of the original full load run time. I have had batteries in my fun car when put in storage for 4+ months start the car right up in the Spring as if it was just run yesterday. Of course, there was zero external load on the hooked up battery at the time.
I would never use a "float charger." I have used a Battery maintainer on a different "fun car" over the Winter months, which is a different beast altogether.
I would never use a "float charger." I have used a Battery maintainer on a different "fun car" over the Winter months, which is a different beast altogether.
