battery application and life
battery application and life
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i work on a fleet of vehicles where they are started and ran for approximately 10 to 20 minutes at the most then sit for an hour or two. If the vehicles are driven sometimes twenty feet then shut off, company policy states anytime you step away from a vehicle it has to be shut down. so a vehicle can be started and stopped more that thirty to fifty times a day. My question is what battery would be best in these applications, my company is trying to go with AGM, and we are constantly having to jump start them and pull the batteries out and bench charge them......





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The cool thing was, the deliveryman would leave the truck and walk up the sidewalk, carrying bread for several houses. The horse would shuffle along the street in phase with the deliveryman, minimizing the number of trips to and from the truck.
Cheap fuel and 'modernism' made the horses obsolete. ... but I wonder...
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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RE: battery application and life
I think I might measure the voltage provided during the 10 minute drive.
If rpm are low and electrical loads are high so 14.X volts are not maintained, then revving up the alternator with a smaller pulley might help.
If the alternator has enough capacity and is revving high enough then a voltage regulator tweaked upward a bit for a bit more charging might improve things.