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Just a quick question to clear things up in my mind.
I've been planning out my project for a while, and have been reading the forms pouring through information to try to make as educated of a decision as possible.
Long story short, I know that I'm going to end up doing a 24v system, most likely with regular FLA (probably the T105RE's, but *possibly* some of the 2v Trojan cells if I magically find a pot of money somewhere that doesn't get earmarked for something more important like paying off the mortgage :P) Either way - my curiosity is - what happens if one of the batteries goes bad or becomes weak (whether from my own fault, manufacturing defect, etc.?) Is the whole string kaput, or can I replace just that one battery?
(I'm planning on doing a single series string, no parallel. Nothing overly special about the rest of the setup, <1500w 24v array, <1500w inverter, probably a Tristar MPPT charge controller. Basically a big complex project with a lot of things to think about that's really different than my "computer nerd" day job so that I can stretch my brain a bit, while providing some value for the family :P)
I'm just concerned that I'll have a nice big beautiful bank, and one problem child will leave me with 3 basically unusable 6v batteries or 11 basically unusable 2v ones.
I've been planning out my project for a while, and have been reading the forms pouring through information to try to make as educated of a decision as possible.
Long story short, I know that I'm going to end up doing a 24v system, most likely with regular FLA (probably the T105RE's, but *possibly* some of the 2v Trojan cells if I magically find a pot of money somewhere that doesn't get earmarked for something more important like paying off the mortgage :P) Either way - my curiosity is - what happens if one of the batteries goes bad or becomes weak (whether from my own fault, manufacturing defect, etc.?) Is the whole string kaput, or can I replace just that one battery?
(I'm planning on doing a single series string, no parallel. Nothing overly special about the rest of the setup, <1500w 24v array, <1500w inverter, probably a Tristar MPPT charge controller. Basically a big complex project with a lot of things to think about that's really different than my "computer nerd" day job so that I can stretch my brain a bit, while providing some value for the family :P)
I'm just concerned that I'll have a nice big beautiful bank, and one problem child will leave me with 3 basically unusable 6v batteries or 11 basically unusable 2v ones.
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