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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beemerphile1 wrote:harold1946 wrote:
Using the figures submitted by Deka and the 19 criteria, with the assesment values provided AGM's come out on top.
Ignoring cost and any specila charging requirements, this is where the evaluation comes out.
wet cell; 49/19=2.157
AGM; 59/19=3.105
Gel cell; 54/19=2.842
Draw your own conclusion.
Keep in mind that you cannot go strictly by that measure. Anyone looking at the list needs to weight the issues important to their particular use.
The chart you are looking at weights everything equally but in the real world some things are more important than others to an individual consumer.
I simply used the criteria provided by Deka to illustrate their overall rating.
The subject of the thread is, "which is better" meaning the battery itself, not which one is best in every application. Deka did not address that. Neither did I. :R
