On the subject of batteries...please don't throw anything at me for
asking this...I have one 12V battery now and the SO is STRONGLY
encouraging me to convert back to two 6V set up. Says there is more
storage capacity in two. Lights will be brighter, will crank better..I
believe I've seen some comments to the opposite. Anyone care to clear
this up for me?
TIA
Becky
Always wanting more power!!!!
69 roadster
Chuck Schaefer wrote:
>
> Lets see:
>
> Assuming a battery rated around 50 ampere hours, and that the car could
> still start at 25% charge (not unreasonable). This leaves us a useable
> charge of 37.5 AH (ampere hours). At 28mA discharge rate, it would take
> (37.5 / .028) hours, or 1339.285714286 hours to discharge to the
> useable cutoff charge. This is 55.80357142857 days without use.
>
> I don't see this as an unreasonable discharge rate although it might be
> a just a little high.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Chuck Schaefer
>
> Don Mathis wrote:
> >
> > When I place an ammeter between the negative post on my battery and the
> > battery wire, I read 28 ma with nothing turned on. We traced everything and
> > it may just be a bad batery. Anyone else ever see this? Thanks-
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Don Mathis,Ph.D.
> > donmathis@lucent.com
> > '61 MGA
> > '37 Derby Bentley (B190KT)
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