[time-nuts] Oscilloquartz BVA has been sold. Thank you all who expressed an interest.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Bob kb8tq writes:

> Two basic types of SLA / VRLA batteries out there: AGM and Gel. For the AGM 
> variety, you want a bit more to your charger.

Yes, if you buy batteries for N * 100K $money, spending more money
on your charger is a good investment.

But if you have two batteries doing float-charge/long-run/tiny-load,
in a benign environment in a corner of your lab, the internal
variance between batteries in that same production lot, will
overshadow any imaginable benefit a fancy charger could bring.

>I haven't worked with Gel cells in a while so they may indeed be easier.

They are for the same reasons they suffer cyclic use better.

But for a float/long-run application, it makes absolutely no difference.

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