Advice needed please Victron and gel carbon battery

[djgriff]

Your gel carbon battery is ultimately at sealed lead acid or SLA battery.

That means it is subject to voltage drop when you draw power... This messes up the soc readings on your monitoring.

Also being a SLA battery you can only use 50% of the capacity.... That means you can only use half of that 110ah.... So you have 55,ah to play with.

That means you can pull 1A for 55 Hours,

Or 10A for 5.5hrs.


Then your battery is done.


You have a good DC-DC charger though, that will help with the recharge.

Ok cool to know and thanks for the advice! Will try and live with it for the mo. So I am thinking I will run the course with this battery then upgrade. Thanks for all the help and info , you guys rock!
Many thanks
Daniel

 

[djgriff]

Hey guys, which of these would you go for:

Victron Energy BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitor​

or

Victron Energy SHU050150050 SmartShunt Battery Monitor, 500A, Bluetooth​

or any recommendations

cheers
Daniel

 

[Dellmassive]

You get the smart shunt.

Unless you want the remote display and programable outputs