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sl8

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Fri Feb 28, 2020, 11:38 AM Feb 2020

TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup

Interesting project. Has a few minutes on the different types of lead-acid batteries (including why your car battery could last many years, but might not).



TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup

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Published on Oct 9, 2018

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Sometimes life throws curveballs. But rather than just get hit in the face, why not do something about them? This video is a mishmash of a project, some insight on Lead-Acid Battery technology, inverters, and applications. A bit different you might say from TC’s normal stuff, but what’s life without a little variety?

*There are definitely different ways to charge lead-acid batteries, with different strategies optimized for different results. However, for general 12V applications, a large battery and a slow-ish charger for a car battery will be an A-OK combo.

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TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup (Original Post) sl8 Feb 2020 OP
Thanks for posting! CloudWatcher Mar 2020 #1

CloudWatcher

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1. Thanks for posting!
Sun Mar 1, 2020, 01:21 PM
Mar 2020

Useful video! I'd been wondering how hard it would be to have a do-it-yourself UPS. The ones I have all complain bitterly about the square waves coming out of my generator

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