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#121 Snowbird

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Posted 03 November 2022 - 04:13 pm

Just put VSR into gurgle and you should find plenty of info, I think mine was from fleabay.


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Posted 03 November 2022 - 04:14 pm

to run dehumidifier takes a fair bit of juice so maybe get a decent Honda generator and join the noisy lot when you are there


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Posted 03 November 2022 - 04:48 pm

Gone off generator idea Lee. Noisy, would need to leave doors open (i like to shut myself in to avoid noseys). And would only work when im there...which at the moment isn't at all often.
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Posted 03 November 2022 - 05:39 pm

Just put VSR into gurgle and you should find plenty of info, I think mine was from fleabay.


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Posted 04 November 2022 - 10:35 am

Stuff below copied from a boaty forum, worth a read through as gives a better idea what you can get from a leisure battery.

"You also need to consider depth of discharge and rate of discharge. Not having enough batteries in the bank will cause both to significantly increase and shorten battery life.

Most leisure batteries are sold quoting ah, but what does that really mean? If you take the example of a typical 130ah leisure battery sold on eBay it has three ratings, C5 80ah, C20 100ah and C100 130ah. These are the maximum ah it will supply at differing discharge rates.

The C100 which is often the quoted headline capacity means it will supply 130 amps over 100 hours, or 1.3 amp per hour. The best way to get the maximum from a battery is a slow discharge. The C20 means it will give a maximum 100 amps over 20 hours, so a faster discharge rate has reduced the overall amount of current you can draw. Once you get to the C5 rate it will only give you 80 amps drawn over 5 hours. I would suggest that for your average invertor usage you are exceeding the C5 rate and therefore will get even less ah.

Then the real killer is that you should never discharge your battery below 50% depth of discharge. So, you can halve all of the above figures if you don't want to kill your battery early.

Finally, you need to factor in that unless you have an advanced alternator regulator or a battery to battery charger you are probably only getting the batteries 100% when on shore power and battery charger. Once away from shore power and just relying on the standard alternator for charging you are probably only charging to about 90% capacity. That means that for a heavy load you have about 40% or less of your C5 rate to play with. For the 130ah leisure battery above that means about 32 amps if you don't want to damage or shorten the life of your battery. So, what does 32amps get you? Well at 12V about 400 watts for an hour. Run a 1.25kw element in a calorifier and you'll get about 18 mins run time on one battery without killing it. The invertor low voltage alarm will let you discharge a lot further than that, but you will be shortening the life of your battery. Add a second battery and you will half the discharge rate and double the runtime.

You need to start by looking at your anticipated load, work out what you are trying to run and how many watts it will take, then work that back into amp hours and then work out how many batteries you need. It will be a lot more than you were hoping for in most cases.


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Posted 04 November 2022 - 12:38 pm

Discharging a battery in 36 mins won't do it any good. I run a honda inverter generator that's quite quiet but downside is initial cost

Edited by leehenty, 08 November 2022 - 10:05 am.

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Posted 04 November 2022 - 08:58 pm

Electric dept have acquired/knitted/cobbled a voltage thingy for testing. Larry the bampton rat has a lead on some 240w solar panels cheaps.

a longer term solution is being initiated by selling house and finding small house with mahoooosive garage...juat gotta find summat now...
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Posted 07 November 2022 - 07:38 pm

Got a 460W solar panel today. Controller and second battery on the way.
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Posted 08 November 2022 - 10:08 am

Just buy a smallholding place with a big barns That way Tishabelle will have somewhere to keep her tractor and implements. Still needs a decent kitchen for cake production though. Most important is cake supplies.

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Posted 08 November 2022 - 05:10 pm

We still need to sort humidity LH to store our cake until summat else found.

The old lady has kept us well and truly supplied with cakey. That's going to be the toughest part of moving unless we can convince her to move too... otherwise we will need to audition for a new old lady!!
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Posted 10 November 2022 - 10:19 am

That's gonna be a tough call Daps.


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Posted 11 November 2022 - 03:54 pm

Battery #2 ear.

S-olar contr-olar is ear.
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Posted 12 November 2022 - 06:19 pm





Me n T been busy today.

All set up. Was luxurious to turn the lights on again.

Dehumidifier testing might resume tomorrow.

Panel not at optimal angle but it is whacking out a good voltage so will do for now.
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Posted 13 November 2022 - 10:00 am

Good luck, lot of mucking about innit..


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Posted 13 November 2022 - 04:24 pm

Just a bit dabbers, luckily ruskie and Larry the Bampton Rat appeared as that was a big ole panel to get a lonnnnng way oooop without arse-cyst-ants!!!

Today we had maybe 10 led loights going and the panels were able to run em and still charge batteries, so there is some hope!
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Posted 13 November 2022 - 08:22 pm

So if you manage to resolve the issue will you still be looking furra noo hoose.


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Posted 13 November 2022 - 08:24 pm

Ohhh yesss dabsss. We is def off somewhere as house now solllld. It may well be camper or summat for a while.
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Posted 14 November 2022 - 09:52 am

Well good luck in the search furra new home mucka, hope you dont have to endure a camper all winter though..


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Posted 14 November 2022 - 12:08 pm

Looking for a change of area or staying local?


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Posted 14 November 2022 - 02:10 pm

Its lookin loikely dabs.. luckily the T is tougher than she looks. (θ‿θ)

Expensive ear SB so prolly change of area. Looking Worcestershire Wiltshire zummerzet Devonia.
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