Tuesday, Jan 10, 2006 at 20:56
"Yep, 20% better that 10% is 12%. Or 20% better than 13%, well better work that out for yourself, it's beyond my mental capacity ???
That’s a lot less than a Hybrid type will take"
Notso, Look at it another way, lets call it the BIGGER picture shall we :-)
A Deep Cycle battery, and as your website has stated, the Delkor in particular, can be discharged far, far and even more far than any Cranking battery, any 'Marine' or any ‘Hybrid’ battery, for the same reason you are using to say they recharge slowly they also DIScharge more slowly than ALL other battery types.
They require far less frequent recharging over any given time.
If you recharge them daily, then because the Delkor DC has actually discharged far less than any other ‘standard’ battery given the exact same use, it requires less recharging, and will probably go a few more days before it requires or it even gets recharged, taking it down to below the useful service level of a ‘non-DC’ battery.
You say “It takes a lot less than a Hybrid type will take” but it also needs less than a Hybrid!
Do you understand what I’m trying to say? {all said very nicely}
A [test] idea;
Fully recharge a (?type?) battery
Next day at 6.55PM measure the battery voltage
Connect a fridge and turn on at 7PM, run fridge @ -1 degree internal temp, 25 ambient.
Disconnect the fridge next day at 7PM (24 hours)
Measure the battery voltage the following day at 7AM. (to eliminate ‘surface’ voltage measurement)
Does the Cranking, Marine and Hybrid batteries all show less voltage than a Deep Cycle battery of the same case size?
I believe the answer is a resounding, yes!
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