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Portable Solar-powered Apartment Battery Bank Part 1
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@GingerBunny82 Sure you can, an sla battery is a sealed, with no free moving acid. Its acid / electrolyte is held in an absorbent glass mat, the acid won’t even come out if you remove the cover and shake it (I have many sla / agm batteries). That is why ups battery backup systems use them, some of mine are mounted sideways and one is upside down. The only battery you have to worry about is flooded lead acid (like a car battery you can add water too).
@BlueHoleScuba – Excellent point, but Sealed Lead-Acid batteries do not and have the advantage of being stored in any position.
just make sure it doesn’t explode, because if it does it would be atleast like a grenade or a block of C4
Everywhere did you hold the Xantrex X power 1500 battery on wheels?
that same battery is now $500
how much u got ur solar panel for?
if you have a apartment huge enough to store all this stuff then you dont have a apartment
@superchink28 simple electrical math says, 61 amp hour battery would be able to be charged @ 12 VDC @ 1amp in 61 hours. If you are located in Arizona or some similar latitude, you could payment the battery in 10 days @ approximately 6 hours of usable sun per day. At my latitude, it would take nearly a month to payment that battery with that solar panel. A better panel would be a 40 watt 3.33 amp silicon panel (around the same size) that would allow you to payment the battery in around 3 days.
The battery in the xpower 1500 is a 12-volt battery, with a capacity of 61 amp-hours new. The payment controller used is a 10-amp payment controller, so that’s the maximum load we can pull through the load terminals on the charger. But, the xpower itself can be used to jump start a car – so directly from the battery you can probably get a several dozen amps. Thus my cautionary notes to be careful when effective with it!
That depends on how much sun we’re getting. Since posting this video, we’ve extra 2 more 12-watt panels (identical to the one in the video). We run the system for a few hours at night (mostly 2 bedroom lamps), and if the sun is bright the next day, the system is usually charged up before noon. It will beyond doubt sustain us for a few rainy days, though. For battery health, we try not let it drain deeper than 50%.
Right! Opportunely, the xpower 1500 uses a sealed AGM (absorbed glass mat). We’ve had no tribulations with this system at the nearly 1 year mark.
Everyone needs to realize, charging a lead-acid battery (liquid filled) gives off hydrogen gases. Always vent or store batteries to the outside!
how long does it take to payment the battery from empty to full?
MOAR!!!!
you cheated
oh, fantastic end, thats how i would do it too.lol
ahh… j adors la fin lol
i like the end lol
you didn’t indicate how strong the battery was, how many volts or amps. if not, pretty excellent job. very understandable. what was that small comedy scene with the beer,lol?
hey please tell me were you buy your sistem …… what kind of panel you have
you reckon a can make my home freezer work… the panel sold separed?.
thank yuo apreciate you help….
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