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Old 25-04-2017, 22:03   #1
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Has anyone any experience with a Megapulse VEE Battery Maintainer? (Megapulse is a black box fitted to across a battery bank which is meant to reduce battery degraduation).
I have a house bank of AGM batteries of unknown age.
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Has anyone any experience with a Megapulse VEE Battery Maintainer? (Megapulse is a black box fitted to across a battery bank which is meant to reduce battery degraduation).
I have a house bank of AGM batteries of unknown age.
You might review Mainesail's writings on this subject. Basically, his testing of such devices shows that they simply do nothing at all.

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For led acid batteries of any type flooded AGM or gel recovery of lost capacity due to deep discharge is dependent upon acceptance voltage and time. The acceptance voltage at 70 degrees Fahrenheit needs to exceed 14.4 volts unlike most recommendations else recovery will not be realized. , these post systems prey upon those that just don't understand that proper acceptance voltage is everything lost capacity recovery
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