"Stan Shankman" wrote in message
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Dave D,



Hey, I did finally read that power-factor FAQ sheet you so nicely pointed
me
to, and yes, it did answer all of my questions.

So, thanks for that!


Glad it helped :-)



I also had the thought of just using a car (or deep cycle) battery with my
unit but upon further reading, discovered that I might have problems that
way with completely dead battery charging. This is so, presumably, because
a
dead battery presents a larger load to the existing charger. So I'm
wondering if anyone can speak about that issue.


I was going to try that myself a few years ago- I wanted to replace the
existing batteries with car batteries. I think I reached the same conclusion
as you did.

Dave