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Old 07-27-2018, 07:51 AM   #322 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
I took some time this afternoon to start buttoning up things in back. Its mostly there.





I still have the charger going. It seems to have settled at around 175.5V. Not sure if that is good or bad, but I'll let it go a bit longer.
The way grid charging generally behaves is this: When the battery cells start getting full, voltage rise slows, then halts. Over the next several hours, you'll actually see voltage begin to drop, because as the batteries warm up from overcharging, their internal resistance rises. I recommend charging for at least 3-4 hours after you see voltage begin to drop, to ensure that all of the cells hit full. A very slow overcharge does little harm to them, while not charging them long enough makes grid charging pointless as you don't achieve cell balance.
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