{"id":2828,"date":"2022-09-14T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T18:47:31","slug":"new-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"New Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/61egVhxk14L._AC_SL1500_-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/61egVhxk14L._AC_SL1500_-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/61egVhxk14L._AC_SL1500_-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/61egVhxk14L._AC_SL1500_-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/61egVhxk14L._AC_SL1500_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a short update to document another change to my electrical system. A few days ago I purchased another lithium battery to add to my existing battery. I now have two 300 amphour batteries being charged with 1200 watts of solar. It\u2019s part of my quest to go total electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The new battery is called Ampere Time and it was less than half the price I paid for my LifeBlue battery. My LifeBlue has an app that lets me see the state of charge and information about amps and voltage, but the Ampere Time only has a BMS built in that protects it from overcharge or low temperature, so I hooked up my Trimetric so I could see the state of the battery in real time. With lingering monsoons and remnants of a hurricane off the west coast, cloud cover has been a challenge for my solar.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far everything seems to be working fine. The batteries are having a little trouble balancing their charge because my wires to each battery are a little different. As soon as I get new wire, that should solve that problem (copper wire is very expensive now).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just wanted to mention that I enjoyed two weeks up in the Sitgraves National Forest camping with sister Donna. We had a couple days of rain and a muddy driveway in and out, but several days of beautiful weather where we explored the surrounding area. One highlight was when Richard and Dianna came up for a wonderful picnic with us. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now I\u2019m camped near Payson in the Tonto National Forest. I\u2019ve had a couple eye doctor appointments treating for some age-related Macular Degeneration and this is a good place for a quick run into Phoenix to see a doctor. The weather is starting to get perfect here and it is still too early to head down to southern AZ. I may go over to the Sedona area next and look at a new area they set up for dispersed camping. They say the idea of the new area is to remove the areas around town that are becoming overused by boondockers, but I think it\u2019s also to get the homeless people out of sight of the tourists. <br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-2832\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/9CFC75E1-2BE9-480F-A67B-345C366AC0D1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/9CFC75E1-2BE9-480F-A67B-345C366AC0D1.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/wp-content\/9CFC75E1-2BE9-480F-A67B-345C366AC0D1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><br>Looks like a jumble of wires. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll update how the new battery is working after I\u2019ve tested it for a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short update to document another change to my electrical system. A few days ago I purchased another lithium battery to add to my existing battery. I now have two 300 amphour batteries being charged with 1200 watts of solar. It\u2019s part of my quest to go total electric. The new battery is called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}