Beaver Patriot house batteries

Lower cost usually gets you into wet batteries, which require watering.

We went with THESE

I have friend with about the same energy usage as you. He continually discharges his batteries below 50 percent and has to replace his GC1 batteries every two years. Replace your 400 amp hour batteries with the same and avoid headaches down the road. Beaver originally installed the necessary batteries.

Richard

Hi,

Go to the lifeline page and search for advice on how to recondition the batteries. You may need to "dance on the needles" because you do not wish the VRLA valve to vent.

RAINEYTXX wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
L-16 format?

Have you tried reconditioning?

What is the l-16 battery? By reconditioning do you mean equalizing?
Sorry, my last fifth wheel had 4-6v batteries to run my residential refer off the inverter. Quite a bit less expensive the Lifeline AGM batteries at 400/ah.

Please advise

Are the lifelines really 400ah ea .... as in x L 16 ( big) 400 amp hours is more than a GC battery can do ... or are they the same size as the golf carts you had in your prior rig 230 ah ea ? If they are the large L16 then dropping down to the GC2 size is certainly cheaper and possible with only overnight use. You could also drop the agm but I wouldn’t as you would have to check water levels frequently. Probably not something you want to do or read up on.
I also think dropping to 2 L 16’s might be what I’d do .. limited boondocing but ....

pianotuna wrote:
L-16 format?

Have you tried reconditioning?

What is the l-16 battery? By reconditioning do you mean equalizing?
Sorry, my last fifth wheel had 4-6v batteries to run my residential refer off the inverter. Quite a bit less expensive the Lifeline AGM batteries at 400/ah.

Please advise

L-16 format?

Have you tried reconditioning?

RAINEYTXX wrote:

jplante4 wrote:
I would stay with the 4-6 volt jars. Interstates run around $150 each. I've seen Trojan T-105s for less than $100 but I was suspicious.

Mmmm, the 6v Interstate battery price I was quoted an approx $350.00/we. What capacity are the $150.00 batteries?

225aH each, so 2 in series gets you 225aH at 12 volts and 4 gets you 450. We sell them all day at $150. Check around. These guys are quoting $149 but then you have to ship them.

Another good source is golf car retailers. They usually deal exclusively in Trojans, but you may be able to find an overstock or going out of business sale.

jplante4 wrote:
I would stay with the 4-6 volt jars. Interstates run around $150 each. I've seen Trojan T-105s for less than $100 but I was suspicious.

Mmmm, the 6v Interstate battery price I was quoted an approx $350.00/we. What capacity are the $150.00 batteries?

I would stay with the 4-6 volt jars. Interstates run around $150 each. I've seen Trojan T-105s for less than $100 but I was suspicious.