Short answer is yes. Looks like your load is about 5.2 amps. Your battery is really a single 24 volt battery with 12 aH of capacity.
It lasts 2.333 hours. 12 amp hours/2.333 hours = 5.14 amps If you have 8 batts (really meaning 4 batteries consisting of two 24 volt 12 aH battery each (a battery means a collection of cells)) that is 48 aH @ 24 volts total. 48/5.14=9.32 hours. Or, doing it using the preferred watt hour method: 24 volts x 5.2 amps = 125 watt load. Your batts are 12Vx12aH or 144 Watt Hours each. So you have 288 Watt Hours of battery. 288/125=2.3 hours of run time. If you have 8 of these 144 watt hour batterys, you have a total of 1152 watt hours of storage. (1.152 kWh or about 14 cents worth of power in my neighborhood). 1152/125=9.216 hours of run time. From: Josh Luthman Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Additional run time through batteries I have a 24v site that uses two 12v 12ah batteries. I get about 2h 20m of run time. Does it stand to reason if I get eight batteries my run time would be 8+ hours? Is sizing linear? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
