Deepcycles have lower lifecycle cost if the battery is significantly discharged. Car batteries won't tolerate much of that, deepcycle batteries are designed for it. That's why RV's and bassboats use deepcycle batteries!
Don Foreman -- also from Ypsilanti many years ago.
Nominal voltage is 12.8 volts when fully charged, if it's not being tricklecharged at the time. It goes down to about 12.0 volts when discharged. Both of these depend on temperature.
Or less pannels on a totally dead 24V SLA of any size.
"Rich Grise"
** The first two have similar peak current ability to a normal car attery - at significantly higher cost.The third is usually the SLA type, with slightly reduced peak capacity and hugely higher cost.
** A crime that did not happen.......... Phil
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