As long as the solar charger does not excessively over-charge the battery, the situation *with* charger will be easier on the battery than *without*, because parasitic drain on the battery will discharge it without the solar charger, so then it will have deeper discharges than with solar charger.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator via EV Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 3:51 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF On 16 Jul 2015 at 9:12, harry henderson via EV wrote: > my main question is if the solar charging will damage the existing 12 > volt battery or do i need to put in a true deep cycle battery to replace it? I can't think of any reason that that solar charging it would damage it. Can anyone else? In any application whether you choose a deep cycle or SLI (starting, lighting, ignition) battery depends on the use of the battery, not on how it's charged. An SLI battery is designed for many shallow cycles starting an ICE. With most EVs that have DC:DC converters, the house battery is used in much the same way. In fact it's even less stressed, since it's only there to close the main contactor. That should take much less energy than cranking an ICE. As soon as the contactor is closed, the DC:DC is recharging the house battery -- or should be. The question here is, why aren't house batteries lasting? Is the Leaf not properly charging it? Could it be that the dealer supplied batteries are junk? David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
