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Surviver76
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Dec 13, 2017

Adding Second Battery to My Existing Solar System :::

Hi Guys, I am in a truck camper in Arizona and my original house battery is a 100AH AGM but it is old and very poor. I need to add a second battery but remember something about that the bad batt will...
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pyoung47
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Dec 24, 2017
Matt_Colie wrote:
Surviver,

As long as you really are stuck buying two new batteries, you might as well save a lot of grief and buy a pair of 6V golf cart batteries. These will give you better than any pair of 12V jars and the likelihood of a battery explosion is greatly reduced.

Matt

I have actuallly witnessed a battery explosion. Pretty dramatic. Golf cart.

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