G2,
specs on the Trojan are
225 minutes @ 25 amps
57 minutes @ 75 amps
Cranking performance
CCA @0 Degrees F = 665
CA @32 Degrees F = 820
130 AH @ 20 Hr
97 AH @ 5 Hr
Are these close to the Orange Battery, I don't remember the numbers, is
there a website I can look them up?
Trey
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II"
<gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 1:46 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Question about running coach batteries (Gerald are
you out there?)
Battery manufacturers suggest that if you are going to run multiple
batteries that they be rated exactly the same. Otherwise you will have
one sucking more of the charging current during a charge cycle and
also one providing more power than the other during a discharge cycle.
The discharge rates may also be different which makes this condition
worse, especially for deep cycle batteries.
Explanation:
Battery A is a 50 amp/hour battery with a nominal discharge rate of 10
amps/hour
Battery B is a 100 amp/hour batter with a nominal discharge rate of 20
amps/hour
The system is currently using 10 amps/hour total.
Battery A provides 5 amps/hour of that.
Battery B provides 5 amps/hour to the system, plus 5 amps/hour to
battery A because it can sustain a higher discharge rate.
In this scenario battery B is th only battery actually being
discharged until it gets low enough that it no longer provides power
to battery A, only to the system. Battery A is barely discharged.
Now, you stop using the system and start up the charger. Battery B has
been deeply discharged and pulls most of he charging amperage. Battery
A gets only a trickle charge because it is showing as "full" to the
charger.
If this cycle repeats every campout battery A will be destroyed
because it is not being deeply cycled the way it was designed.
That being said, yes, + to + and - to - using the shortest cables
possible. You may want to try running JUST the orange battery for a
weekend. Camp in the driveway to test it out. It is about double the
capacity of most "normal" deep cycle batteries.
G2
Trey Jung wrote:
Gerald,
I'd like to add the "orange battery" I got from you to my existing
Trojan deep cycle battery in the Eurovan to increase my battery time
when I am camping like last week w/o AC hookups...
Would I just run a jumper cable from the first battery to the 2nd
(pos to pos and neg to neg or do I need some special connector).....
Trey
