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Originally Posted by Ag&Au

Do you happen to have the link to the explanation of the test? I am getting confused. I have always thought that SG was the best test for battery charge % as long as it was given a chance to stabilize. I guess I need to do more reading.

Ken

I tried to open my saved link yesterday and it gave me an error message.

I did a quick search and found other references that may help, although this one doesn't go into test details. It covers it by definition.

Battery Life and How To Improve It

"Some applications such as electric vehicles or marine use may require the maximum capacity to be extracted from the battery which means discharging the battery to a very high DOD. Special "deep cycle" battery constructions must be used for such applications since deep discharging may damage general purpose batteries. In particular, typical automotive SLI batteries are only designed to work down to 50% DOD, whereas traction batteries may work down to 80% to 100% DOD."