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Old 03-22-2020, 10:56 AM   #41
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Your grass and yard looks great, we are busy reseeding and still raking leaves to allow sun down to the dirt for germination.
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Old 03-22-2020, 11:49 AM   #42
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Pic is from last year or year before. Since then, we've been invaded with chafer beetles. Lawn crew sprayed ( safe for bees etc ), added top soil and seed. We shall see how effective that is.
Raccoons and skunks about and love to tear up the turf to get at the chafer larva.
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If you are reseeding don’t not put down treatment for crabgrass or other annual grasses like foxtail or goose grass. The crabgrass preventer will kill your grass seed. For Northern Masked Chafers I usually apply grub control in granular form as the larvae are preparing to emerge and as the adults lay eggs after breeding ( in our area about June) one of our headaches here is Japanese Beetle which has a slightly different life cycle ( a few weeks later) than the Masked Chafer. The efficacy of the insecticide declines fairly rapidly so one application rarely gets both. Both pests fly so you get them from your non treating neighbors. A most devious practice is to generously give your neighbors Japanese Beetle Traps. The pheromones in the trap attract your beetles to the unsuspecting neighbors yard. For skunks I use a tube trap to keep them from spraying. For raccoons a cage trap and Montana 3S
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For skunks I use a tube trap to keep them from spraying. For raccoons a cage trap and Montana 3S
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Regs here make trapping inefficient.
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Old 03-22-2020, 01:37 PM   #45
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Where does the 50% magic number come from, neither of these charts?
I comes from the same place that the sun never shines as every other arbitrary "rule of thumb". If the argument is that 80% discharge cuts life in half compared to 50% discharge, then I say you should never (on pain of death ) ever exceed 30% discharge, because 50% discharge cuts life in half compared to 30%.

The chart is for discharging to that depth on every cycle. A single discharge to 80% instead of a user's usual 50% (for example), doesn't cut life in half. Time matters, too, not just discharge depth, and so does discharge rate, so you can't predict the life based entirely on the discharge versus cycles chart. The chart just illustrates one relationship in the several factors that affect battery life.

My thinking is discharge as much as you need to, but recharge at the first opportunity. The tolerable life (in cycles) will depend on the application; while thousands of cycles sounds nice, if you are only going to use 500 cycles in the couple of decades that you own an RV, why would it matter if the battery could last longer?
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