another source for agm batteries
Hi, It's time for me to consider replacing four of my batteries that are now 8 years old. I came across this on Amazon. Any one have an opinion on this company? http://www.vmaxchargetank.com/...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
If the plate is 99.999% Pb and the electrolyte is 1.300 an AGM is an AGM.
"Hey Harry! We can't make it seem like we are a 'me too' battery! Round up all the specs from everyone else, and change ours to make 'em different. No! not the weight and plate count dummy! They can check that! I mean stuff like amp hours and charging voltage. What the hell is 5 amp hours, and a tenth of a volt or so?"
Don't laugh, This is what goes on in sales department meetings.
Yes. For some enterprises, marketing is all about making sales by telling lies that the engineers can tolerate and that can get past the Law dept. :)
I do believe it is reasonable to digest AGM specs and look for commonality and discard outlier specs. That is why I am asking about 14.7V if it wasn't clear beforehand.
Doesn't an AGM mfgr hurt sales by quoting lower charging Volts? If I had a 14.6V Boondocker charger I would have second thoughts about switching to AGMs.
What is the reason for the 14.7V?
HTH;
John
