Afternoon everyone, hope everyone’s winding down for ‘Christmas’
This is my first post and have found so much useful information so far, I know a few of you guys are really clued up on 12v electrics so thought I’d see if anyone can help with my specific question.
I purchased a new 100ah Platinum Leisure AGM Plus batter from a big supplier, despite the retailer stating it would arrive fully charged, on arrival I hooked it up to a 5A smart bench charger and is was reading if I remember correctly about 11.8V and took about 12 hours to fully charge. Which would indicate it was fairly discharged to begin with and from what I have read on here and online, discharged batteries should be recharged as soon after discharge to prolong their life - and now i don’t know how long it had been sitting in the warehouse in this state?
emailed supplier who reassured the battery would be find and it was discharged because of delays due to COVID etc.
after fully charging the battery and taking a voltage reading at rest the next day the battery is sitting at 12.6v, I thought it should be a little higher. Now I’ve not used the battery ‘in the field’ but after hooking it up today, running the pump for 20 minutes and reeling in about 20m of hose with a Powerup3d, taking the voltage an hour later both with a multimeter and via a v16 controller it’s reading 12.4v
This seems to be too low for such little use, I’m not going to be able to get any real use to test it until after Christmas now but wanted to get your opinion on it before I contact the supplier again. Or am I just being concerned for no reason?
Thanks guys
This is my first post and have found so much useful information so far, I know a few of you guys are really clued up on 12v electrics so thought I’d see if anyone can help with my specific question.
I purchased a new 100ah Platinum Leisure AGM Plus batter from a big supplier, despite the retailer stating it would arrive fully charged, on arrival I hooked it up to a 5A smart bench charger and is was reading if I remember correctly about 11.8V and took about 12 hours to fully charge. Which would indicate it was fairly discharged to begin with and from what I have read on here and online, discharged batteries should be recharged as soon after discharge to prolong their life - and now i don’t know how long it had been sitting in the warehouse in this state?
emailed supplier who reassured the battery would be find and it was discharged because of delays due to COVID etc.
after fully charging the battery and taking a voltage reading at rest the next day the battery is sitting at 12.6v, I thought it should be a little higher. Now I’ve not used the battery ‘in the field’ but after hooking it up today, running the pump for 20 minutes and reeling in about 20m of hose with a Powerup3d, taking the voltage an hour later both with a multimeter and via a v16 controller it’s reading 12.4v
This seems to be too low for such little use, I’m not going to be able to get any real use to test it until after Christmas now but wanted to get your opinion on it before I contact the supplier again. Or am I just being concerned for no reason?
Thanks guys