Car batteries in the home?

From: Mike Kenzie <KenzieM_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri Aug 17 16:33:13 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Car batteries in the home?


> Car batteries are not good for a UPS because they are not "deep
cycle"
> batteries (that is they don't expect to be drained all the way to
zero,
> which damages them)
>
> I built a UPS for my wife out of a couple of deep cycle marine
batteries
> and a 600W inverter. We've got a solar panel that keeps it topped
off. Can
> run the laptop for days ...

I have a brother that runs his whole house off of batteries and a
small Honda generator. He's putting on a solar panel soon.

Check with the phone company, they replace the batteries on their
UPS's regularly.
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 16:33:13 BST