hwy17
Anti-Solar Enthusiast
My favorite part of a technical hobby is the persistent controversial and dogmatic topics of debate. The nature of a good persistent topic will center around a ubiquitous performance frustration, and on one side will be a practical alleviating measure, opposed by a purist faction who argue that the alleviating treatment is ignoring or covering up the root cause.
In pools, we have "filtration is primary" vs. "filtration is ancillary to the chemical sanitation". 1% of the USA's entire electric consumption is caught up in that debate.
In dirt bikes, we have "lower the mix ratio for trail riding" vs. "never touch the mix, all rich conditions can be fixed in the jetting".
I only land on one side of these debates, with the contrarians. The reason I do that is probably for enjoyment. The practical faction will offer a good enough solution that you can apply and move on from but the purist faction will give you a forever problem, a bottomless pit of refinement. I know that jetting is the only true way to tune a bike, and yet my bike still smokes and the lean mixers don't. But that's the point, because every time I get my bike out I get to work with this problem again and dig into half step needle swaps and various brass until I find the perfect one for today's weather, which is spoiled again by noon.
Anyway, waxing on the zen and art of motorcycle maintenance aside, back to the title:
Do you guys really try to balance in absorption? Doesn't this give a very narrow window of like an hour or less in a daily solar charge cycle to get the balancing done? Maybe with some carryover as they come off the absorption into float but if you balance at 3.42 and float at 54 you're going to lose your balancing pressure right?
In pools, we have "filtration is primary" vs. "filtration is ancillary to the chemical sanitation". 1% of the USA's entire electric consumption is caught up in that debate.
In dirt bikes, we have "lower the mix ratio for trail riding" vs. "never touch the mix, all rich conditions can be fixed in the jetting".
I only land on one side of these debates, with the contrarians. The reason I do that is probably for enjoyment. The practical faction will offer a good enough solution that you can apply and move on from but the purist faction will give you a forever problem, a bottomless pit of refinement. I know that jetting is the only true way to tune a bike, and yet my bike still smokes and the lean mixers don't. But that's the point, because every time I get my bike out I get to work with this problem again and dig into half step needle swaps and various brass until I find the perfect one for today's weather, which is spoiled again by noon.
Anyway, waxing on the zen and art of motorcycle maintenance aside, back to the title:
Do you guys really try to balance in absorption? Doesn't this give a very narrow window of like an hour or less in a daily solar charge cycle to get the balancing done? Maybe with some carryover as they come off the absorption into float but if you balance at 3.42 and float at 54 you're going to lose your balancing pressure right?