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Typical Standby Battery Life
A good estimate of your system’s standby battery
life can be obtained by the following method:
1.
Begin with the battery FULLY charged.
2.
Connect an ammeter (set to a safe-about
2 ampere-range) in either leg of the
battery harness, in series, with the proper
polarity to read the current provided by the
battery.
3.
Unplug the system’s power transformer
from the outlet.
4.
Read the current being drawn by the
system.
5.
Add to this current 20 ma for each Display
Control Keypad, and 12 ma for each
Control Keypad that are in the system.
This will calculate the total standby current
drain.
6.
Use the current that is equal to (or greater
than) yours, on the curve (Figure 2-6).
This figure shows battery voltage (verti-
cally) compared to different amounts of
current drain. Across the bottom is the
amount of time that the battery has had to
supply the current.
7.
Read the time where your current line
drops below a voltage of 9.8 volts. This is
the amount of time the system should
operate in the standby mode before the
voltage causes it to call in a low power
warning and initiate its Suspend Opera-
tion.
8.
If the standby time is too short, you must
add battery capacity. You can add
another identical battery in parallel (plus
terminal connected to plus, and minus
terminal to minus) to double the capacity.
NOTE:
Two batteries take twice as much charge cur-
rent-a two-battery system is not UL Listed. When
using two batteries in parallel, use one-half of the
measured current while referring to the chart.
12.0
11.0
Terminal Voltage
.
/
10.0
9.0
1
2
4
6
810
20
4060 2 4
6
810
20
40
60
2
4
6
810
20
DISCHARGE TIME
Figure 2-6Typical Battery Life vs. Current, for 7 Amp-Hour Battery
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