jplante4 wrote:
For the price of 4 AGMs you can get 4 wet cell Trojans or Interstate GC2s and a watering system and have enough left over for a nice dinner. Wet cells plus a watering system completely negates the "maintenance free" argument for spending twice as much for them.
There certainly are more inexpensive choices as you mentioned above. You might be eliminating watering, but, the trays and battery posts are not going to clean themselves including damaging the battery trays.
I never let my wet-cell batteries get low, ever. They just naturally outgas causing the corrosion.
On my current coach, I have 4 sealed AGM chassis starting batteries, it has looked new in that compartment for 3 yrs. now.
Our 3 house batteries are Lithium Ion, so, clean as a whistle in that storage bay too.
Safe travels,
MM.