Re: 12V Battery Replacement
I'm leaning towards deep cycle on this one. I have worked extensively with marine battery systems and think that the lower number of plates but thicker plates wins this discussion if this discussion is about long reliable battery life. We do not need hundreds of amps, even when it is used to charge the traction battery. The amount of 12 volt current we will need is probably limited by the 12 volt to 330 volt inverting electronics and that probably limits it to 50 amps (Guessing but I would really think 20 amps is a better guess) as the cost of high current switching supplies get real high. If you can use lower current and a little more time then the dollars saved will be high. How many minutes does it take to charge the traction batteries?
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