RE: SVR battery data

["Roger Stockton" <rstockton@delta-q.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Rudman [mailto:rmanzan@tscnet.com] 
> Sent: April 22, 2002 11:15 AM
> To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu
> Subject: SVR battery data
> 
> 
> Now for some usefull bandwidth;
> 
> I have promised the Data that we take on the SVR-14 Batteries 
> used in a few of the EV Drag cars.

> 	So I have a Stack of them, and have been cycling them 
> on my inverter. I have found they make about 9 ampours of 
> stored power at about a 17.5 amp draw.

Hey, Rich:

These batteries are advertised as having been originally intended as
motorcycle starting batteries; how deeply are you cycling them and how
is the capacity holding up?

Just wondering if, like other batteries intended for SLI duty, they
crank out the amps and last decently with shallow discharges, but die
quickly if discharged deeply very many times. (The question really comes
down to how suitable would they be for a short range urban assault
vehicle that makes it to the dragstrip once in a while?  Shallow cycles
and short life are acceptable compromises in a racing vehicle, but not
in one that also sees commuter duty...)

Thanks,

Roger.