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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1043 |
Topic: Platform for dual batteries? Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 11:45am |
I don't see it!
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Jon & Pam
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Seanl
Senior Member Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Location: Fredericton NB Online Status: Offline Posts: 633 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 12:19pm |
I had a png file which should have shown on anything but I changed it to a JPEG.
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Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1043 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 1:10pm |
I don't see it!! No biggy. So what it sounds like is (+) pod wire to one of the batterys positive; pods (-) wire going to the other batterys negaitive, then one cable (+) to (+) on the batterys and cable to (-)s on the batterys.......correct?
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Jon & Pam
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Seanl
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Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 1:30pm |
Sounds right Pods + to one of the batteries' + Pod's - to the other bateries' - Then jumper +to+ and -to- |
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Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1043 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 1:45pm |
OK, will do the switch. And this is strictly for even flow in and out of the two batterys, correct?
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Jon & Pam
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 26 Jun 2013 at 9:43pm |
Terry - yes, it will just do it a little slower. hogone - yes. If you hook the pod only up to one battery, the 2nd battery now has a longer path for its electrons with more resistance in that extra wire which connects it to the first batt. So it will discharge less and then charge less. The first batt will get more wear and die early. |
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1043 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 6:36am |
furpod: in your pic, it looks like how I have it hooked up, both pod wires to one battery, then cables jumping over to the other, not like techntrek suggests..............or am i looking at the pic wrong?
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Jon & Pam
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 9:37am |
No you are looking at it right.
I have a couple EE friends who tell me, yes, it's true, the longer path will cause the far battery to not charge/discharge at the same rate, but that in a two battery "bank" it will not be noticeable. After three years, I see no difference in their capacity, although my DMM only goes to 3 decimals. I just checked them after getting back from the NC rally, let them charge on 120v for two days, disconnected them, and the next day checked their charge state, they were at 12.610 and 12.608. I can live with that. (it's an ongoing experiment..) EDIT.. my wife points out those are the numbers from after the pod sat overnight, still attached, but not umbilicaled to the TV. I seem to have not recorded the numbers from the post charge, so I just went out and shut the battery switch off, I will get fresh numbers in a few hours, though my Fluke is over at my brothers and I will only be able to get 2 digit resolution with my craftsman DMM. But to make up for it, I will try to get pictures.. LOL. BTW, one of the best battery box mods is to throw away them crappy factory straps and buy some regular cheap tie down hook straps, cut the hooks off and use them. I just did it after having to replace the factory straps last summer, and being able to tell it was going to need to be done again this year.. |
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1043 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 9:46am |
Thanks for the info. I broke one of the straps the first time I touched it! Replaced both with a heavy duty snap buckle strap, works great.
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Jon & Pam
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 27 Jun 2013 at 1:55pm |
Ditto, I replaced my strap with a regular ratcheting tie-down. The factory supplied strap is... crap.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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