Re: Emeter Percent Charge Question

[Paul G <neong@gte.net>]

>Cruising equipment's guidelines are based on the assumption that you will
>get the information for programming the emeter from the battery
>manufacturers specs.  Battery manufacturers don't list peukerts capacity so
>they use the next best thing, C/20 capacity which (for flooded batteries at
>least) is fairly close.

Actually, as capacity and peukert's exponant increase the C/20 capacity and
the Peukert's capacity of a battery get further apart. I just checked for a
Trojan T-125 battery using the C/20 and 75 amp discharge data provided off
the Trojan web site. The Peukert's capacity is 376 but the C/20 only 235
amp hours.

Now which one does the E-meter want?

Neon