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Originally Posted by DeliveryGuy89
I keep seeing that pop up here and I've never even heard of them, but I'll definitely look into it.
My other thought that I forgot to mention earlier, since cold starts are a huge pain here - I do have a block heater. And a power inverter. Aaaand a smart plug that I can control with my phone, including a timer.
If I run a regular battery in conjunction with the deep cycle battery that has a 210 minute discharge - regular creates crank, runs vehicle while on, deep cycle runs it while off, couldn't I potentially plug the block heater into the inverter with a timed plug that turns on an hour before I go to work, and essentially just use the cars power to heat itself?
Thereby eliminating the power wastage/pollution that block heaters create by being plugged into a wall?
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Your minutes of reserve capacity is how long the battery can produce 25 amps with out falling below 10.5v at 80F. The problem with 10.5v is that's really freaking dead and is probably damaging the battery.
You are likely no where near 80F when using the battery.
The smallest block heaters are typically 600 watt so the battery will run the block heater for maybe around an hour.
Then it will take up to 10 hours to fully charge the battery.
Chances are the car alternator doesn't produce enough volts to push finishing amps through the battery.
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