COACH BATTERIES

[Don Bradner]

As others have pointed out, there are some technical issues with your comments.
I think if you research the topic you will find a steady stream of "Lead-acid is
not subject to memory' on technical sites. Rule-of-thumb is to avoid discharge
below 50% whenever possible. I wouldn't personally go so far as to say a 100%
discharge will destroy a battery, but it will definitely shorten life.

One other issue is this part:
>Price vs. performance vs. reliability.
>Two $75 55ah 12 volt batteries will be more reliable than one $150
>100ah battery but take up twice the space

As you noted correctly "sheer lead volume determines capacity" so it is not
possible to have a 100AH battery that is the same size as a 55AH battery unless
the latter has an extreme amount of wasted space.

On 8/9/2008 at 12:44 AM hippieforever3 wrote:

>OK, first my bonafides.