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I’m a student so on a very limited budget but trying to put together a system that will at least run my laptop charger (60w) and my monitor, and ideally my tv (42 inch HD - Google says average 120W) but I can even go without the tv. I’m not looking at more than 200w/250w at a time...
While I'd love to have a decent inverter with a chunky Lithium battery to keep my office going for a day or so, I simply cannot afford one at the moment. But I have a good UPS (Eaton Ellipse Eco 1600) that uses 2 sealed lead acid (SLA) batteries - the usual 12V/7Ah "bricks". Unfortunately SLA...
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This one should hopefully be easy to solve.
Loadshedding killed my Paradox MG5050 alarm battery (Power Kingdom; 7ah) in less than two years. It needed to be replaced as it's runtime decreased to 4.5 hours.
I ordered this 9ah battery from Takealot. It has the same physical footprint as...
Seeing that there is a lot of discussion and questions around batteries for inverter and solar setups, I thought a dedicated thread is a good idea. This will help to keep the inverters threads focused on the inverters and finding information, prices, stock and general discussion and suggestion...
Found this webpage for DIY lead acid batteries. and thought it might be interesting. In special the book from 1922 on the page is a goldmine for everybody interested in the topic.
Here the direct link to the detailed table of contents.
I remembered that I have seen old battery assemblies...