AGM batteries - are they better?
Upgrade to an AGM battery. You can safely mount them inside, and upside down, and they will out-perform any flooded battery you ever owned! Here's a quote from another thread. It's typical of other...
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crosscheck wrote:The AGM market is very tiny. Most people here have 1 or 2 batteries tops. My guess is maybe 20 people here have AGM's, that's 40 batteries tops (extreme WAG but I don't think I'm too far off). That's not going to do anything to lower AGM pricing. Golf courses buy batteries by the 1000's. That's where the sales are and why GC's in particular are so cheap and why there's so many available. They also get the most R&D because they're used so much. Golf courses and the off grid market. The off grid market is relatively small too but those people spend LOTS of money on their batteries so they get some R&D/lower cost love too.
In my situation, I required AGM's and I am happy after 3 years of fairly heavy use.
After reading about how many people have replace their existing wet's with AGM's on this forum, I still wonder why at almost twice the price this would be the case?
