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| I have a couple of big AGM batteries sitting here
next to my computer using them for backup power. I have heard that AGM batteries have to be charged very slowly. At a rate around one amp. I have heard that charging them at a higher rate will kill them sooner. Is this true. I bought a battery charger/maintainer to keep them charged.
So, do they have to be charged slowly, and will the charger
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| I don't know anything about your batteries; Maybe you could google and find their specifications. I would guess, since these batteries were for wheelchair service, those would be similar to deep discharge, marine duty batteries for trolling motors. For comparison purposes, a 1.5 amp charge rate is about right for a 12 v motorcycle battery having 14 amp-hour capactiy with a taper-back in the charge rate as the battery approaches full charge voltage. |
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- Posted by poohbear2767 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 08 at 17:32
| I'm talking about Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) batteries. They are used in a variety of different applications. Some of the high end automotive batteries are AGM types. The batteries I have look very much like marine batteries. Pooh Bear |
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| Don't understand why you are doing what you do. My computers and my entire T.V. , dish, sound system, and V.C.R. are on my U.P.S. and only my U.P.S. I have 12 volts at 28 amp.hours connected in series. My U.P.S. is 24 volts. I can run my system for 4 hours without hydro. I dought very much you have a 73 amp battery. That thing would weigh about 65 lbs. if not more and be the size of car battery and a half. My 28 amp batteries weigh 25 lbs. Those are gell cells and use a special charger and made to be on charge more than they are off charge. You probably have 37 amp batteries. Why are you not just using your U.P.S. ? Connect your A.G.M. batteries to it. The U.P.S. has it's own proper built in charger that will go into float when the batteries are full. |
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- Posted by poohbear2767 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 18, 08 at 22:22
| My UPS only gives me a few minutes before it shuts down. Just enough time to unplug it from the wall and plug it into a power inverter. The wheelchair batteries do weigh about 60 pounds each. These batteries are 8.5T x 6.5W x 10L. I bought a UPS because we have a lot of power "blinks" here. Oh, and I do have a smaller AGM battery out of a 4 wheeler Pooh Bear |
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| I was curious about this because I have an old trailer I want to outfit with a battery pack like this for "boondock" camping, so I looked around online and probably ran across a lot of the same stuff you already know. The consensus seems to be that you want a rapid charge to about 80 percent capacity and then a slow charge to 100 percent. AGM batteries are said to be more resilient to different types of charging than most. I can't see any reason why the charger you have would not be fine. |
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| The first thing i have to know is what is the K.V.A. of your U.P.S. You can run most of your stuff with 1000 K.V.A. with externally mounted batteries for hours. You can't do much with 500 K.V.A. I have my system setup that way. I took out my 18 amp batteries because they were dead. I externally mounted my 28 amp batteries because they were too big to fit in the case. As i said before i can get up to 4 hours on the U.P.S. alone. What you can do is find yourself an old car alternator with a little gas motor. Use the car alternator to keep your U.P.S. batteries up. You can go forever or until you run out of gas. You have to do a little wiring because most larger U.P.S.'s are 24 volts on the battery side. Works just fine. I loose hydro sometimes for 2 days. Always between 2 to 24 hours in the summer storms. An active U.P.S. also cleans up hydro spikes and brown outs. Give it a try and impress your friends with your wiring project. Oh yah. Depends on the age and size of the U.P.S. Some you had to use your computer to get into the rom chip and flash it telling it it has larger batteries or it will shut down on the old information of the smaller battery. I had to do that on my commercial U.P.S. when i put 1000 amp batteries in it or it would have shut down in 17 minuets under full load with the old info. It still thought it had 28 amp batteries in it. |
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