Does DEKA make a good UPS battery?
I took a trip yesterday down near San Diego, it was twofold. One was to replace my free Trojan T-1275 that was a golf cart reject already when I got it with a pig of a 105# UPS 145ah AGM battery from ...
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pnichols wrote:NinerBikes wrote:
All those amps, in an AGM battery, supposedly July 2014 build, for $125 out the door. Perhaps it was a deal that was too good to be true?
That was a pretty good AGM deal if it isn't worn out a bit, but I don't see how it could be after only one year. Without revealing your source .... I'm curious as to how it became available to you that new and at that price?
FWIW, I paid about $47 each for my first set of two new 100 amp-hour wheelchair AGM batteries around 9 years ago on a warranty swap arrangement with the dealer where I bought our motorhome. I got around 8 1/2 years use out of them before replacement.
Some guy that posts a lot about solar charging and recharging batteries from the Left Coast of Canuckistan that discovered how to employ and properly charge wasted Trojn T-1275's, I think, came across a deal in the Great White North on one of these batteries. Another post by some sorcerer wizard type of guy lead to a discrete PM being sent by me to them requesting more information, which yielded a link to a battery shop 125 miles away from me with a smoking deal. The only way to make this economically feasible is to drive an uber efficient 55mpg capable VW TDI diesel sedan at sedate 65mph speeds on I-5 on my way to Mexico at free flowing Midnight Interstate 5 traffic conditions, if they aren't tearing it up and doing road construction improvements on it. It would never be cost efficient in a Road Hog gas sucking RV with gasoline at $4 a gallon. I know this because my friends I met down there kept on looking at me weird, like how did you save any money driving the RV down here to get a new battery, like I was some sort of nut job? It was when I walked out to my car and they saw me get into it, that it was determined I didn't suck all my savings and blow it out the tail pipe of a 10mpg if you're lucky RV.
That's the Reader's Digest Condensed version. I can add the minute important details after I extract that Honda EX650 as a gift from you to me when you "pay it forward" to me in a quid pro quid deal. Sound fair?
