Gaston
Gaston OR.
Full Member
Joined: 10/03/2001
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
 Offline
|
I uses them to light the lights, spin the fans, and do all the things I need volts to do and if I run them down to 11.0 or any other arbitrary ## so be it. I fire up the honda and charge them as needed. If the beers cold I could care less what the volts are. I got them to do the work for me. not to have something to worry about....AND if I do murder one now and, then so what, I can replace it at any wallyworld for less than 100$
John, Linda
PT Cruiser and Teardrop PT Snuiser
F250sc & Komfort 5er
|
smkettner
Southern California
Senior Member
Joined: 03/21/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
|
gmachine wrote:Nothing to do with battery posting.
MOUSEFART! MY GRANDKIDS SAY "THANKS FOR THE ANIMATION".
And thank goodness for the ESC key that will stop the animation 
To the OP: I know I have enough for a day or two and that is all I need before I recharge. When they no longer provide this they will be replaced.
2001 F150 SuperCrew
2006 Keystone Springdale 249FWBHLS
|
Mousefart
New Jersey
Senior Member
Joined: 08/15/2004
View Profile
|
MrWizard wrote:Mousefart wrote:If you were to actually drain you battery down to 10.5 volts, you would most likely be left with a useless chunk of lead.
I don't understand why you keep saying that,
you've NEVER EVER left the head lights on, and run down the battery on one of your vehicles, jumped started it and have the battery last for several years after ward ?
even with a starting battery, it won't be ruined by ONE dis-charge cycle
what will kill, is 'running the battery down' by trying to start an engine that won't start, because the heavy currents of the starter will warp the thin plates. forgetting to turn off the headlights will drain it, but NOT kill it.
and deep cycle batteries can do it many times, like 100's of times some very expensive solar batteries can with stand a 1000 or more full discharge cycles.
Well, that's true, but many people think it is okay to do all the time, not just that occasional "accident". Like those that constantly run their single battery almost dead every night running the furnace. Theyt kill the battery prematurely where the real solution is to get a second battery.
Let's face it, 99% of the battereis on RVs are NOT the industrial type that you are talking about. They are plain old marine/RV batteries that will take very few deep discharge cycles before they die.
|
beemerphile1
I'm only 54, I'm not a
Senior Member
Joined: 04/20/2007
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
Offline
|
Mousefart wrote:MrWizard wrote:Mousefart wrote:If you were to actually drain you battery down to 10.5 volts, you would most likely be left with a useless chunk of lead.
I don't understand why you keep saying that,...even with a starting battery, it won't be ruined by ONE dis-charge cycle...
Well, that's true, but many people think it is okay to do all the time, not just that occasional "accident"...
I left my car sit in the garage for a while this winter without a battery maintainer on it. When I went to start it in February it wouldn't do anything, no crank, no lights, no nothing. I put a volt meter on it and read only 3.4 volts! I charged it up and have been driving it for the last month with no problems.
Did I shorten the life of the battery? Maybe I did but it certainly did not turn it into a "useless chunk of lead".
Tim (in NE Ohio)
"Okay, I admit it, the only thing I'm really good at is being me."
2006 Weekend Warrior FK1900
1998 Ford E150 4.6L
1996 BMW R1100GS
2007 Trek 7.2FX
2005 Trek Madone 9spd.
1995 Burley tandem
|
Bubby's RV
CA
Senior Member
Joined: 07/22/2003
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club
|
smkettner wrote: ...
And thank goodness for the ESC key that will stop the animation
....
Thanks!
John, Winnebago Minnie 24V
|
|
|
|
