Battery recommendation
Hi, what are the latest recommendations for a good deep cycle battery for my trailer? I want wet flooded; not AGM. In a Group 24 size. I'll need two. My local RV shop recommends Interstate at $116 ...
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pnichols wrote:MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Height is the major obstacle. Trading brewskie$ for amp hour$ may be another.
I admit that "brewskie$" is new to me ... but if I read you right I'm confused cuz ... I know that you know that a couple of Lifeline Group 31's in parallel can yield up to 250 amp hours. Even my two lowly Fullriver Group 31's in parallel are good for 230 amp hours.
It takes a fairly tall cluster of two golf cart 6 volters in series to extend beyond the 230-250 amp hour range.
Weeze talking flooded or everything? Except "partially" for Trojan and Rolls I know of no true cyclable batteries stuffed inside car jars.
Remember! The car starting batteries of the sixties and seventies were more "Deep Cycle" than any today's Johnson Controls car jar battery. My Autolite batteries were HEAVIER than today's group 27's and had only 525 CCA amps and 105 amp hours.
Not fair to compare the Lifeline 31 to a Wal-Mart 31. Number of usable cycles the Lifeline will kick it's ass. Discharge to 20% state of charge the difference is astonishing. Assembled the same way as a Northstar or Full River, I doubt the Lifeline would have 90 amp hours and 550 CCA both weights being eqvt. It's the precision construction of the Lifeline that makes the most difference. And Lifeline does not balk at using silver as a grid alloy.
Remember, the active paste reactions carry wattage to the grid and it is the grid that connects cell to cell and then to the studs. Electrolyte must affect the entire grid surface via the cured paste.
When I am feeding a tree, and other AGMs have returned to their soy sauce or taco origins to be recycled, my Lifeline will serve to provide joy to my kids. .090" plates are not to be belittled :)
