Ericson 27 1976 "Lotus Flower"
More Batteries;
After initial operations with the existing prop and minimal battery capacity (four group 27 AGM’s) I added four group 31 AGM batteries as a separate 48 volt bank for longer range and redundancy. This brought the battery storage up to about 200 amp hours at 48 volts total. There are valid arguments against the two separate banks system I chose and having all eight 12 volt batteries connected in series/parallel as one bank.
The main issue is the range loss to the Peukert...
After initial operations with the existing prop and minimal battery capacity (four group 27 AGM’s) I added four group 31 AGM batteries as a separate 48 volt bank for longer range and redundancy. This brought the battery storage up to about 200 amp hours at 48 volts total. There are valid arguments against the two separate banks system I chose and having all eight 12 volt batteries connected in series/parallel as one bank.
The main issue is the range loss to the Peukert...
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