Car batteries in the home?

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Sat Aug 18 11:45:59 2001

At 12:39 PM 8/17/01 -0700, Chuck wrote:
>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)

That, plus the fact that plate surface area is maximized for a
very high short-circuit current. In turn, this means that the
volumetric energy density is much lower for a car battery
than for a UPS battery.

Carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 11:45:59 BST