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Title: charging battery bank
Post by: mark on August 03, 2011, 04:30:47 PM

Should I rotate the charging/inverter cables periodically to different battery posts? Will this extend battery longevity?
48 volt bank Deka golf cart
Outback FM80
Magnum Ms4448PAE
Thanks

Title: Re: charging battery bank
Post by: Robin on August 04, 2011, 12:05:09 AM

You want to have the positive connected at one end of the battery bank and the negative at the other. That forces all the current to go through all the batteries. Do you have parallel strings?

Title: Re: charging battery bank
Post by: mark on August 04, 2011, 07:31:50 AM

Thanks Robin, and yes I have 2 strings of 8 (6-volt batteries).

Mark

Title: Re: charging battery bank
Post by: mike90045 on August 04, 2011, 06:07:59 PM

This site http://www.smartgauge.co.uk/batt_con.html has a great explanation about how to hook up parallel banks of batteries on the "diagonal".

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