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 Deka. I have already nicknamed that battery "The Herniator".
The other was to meet up with some old friends, which turned into happy hour, which turned into... getting on the road sober at 11:30 pm to miss all the BS traffic on Interstate 5 to north los angeles.
This DEKA battery looks brand spanking new. I will need to check the date of mfg, but I wanted to shout out thanks to You Know Who, for the lead. I believe at a 20hr rate, the ad claims 175 AH, but it is 20 hr 158 AH, according to the specs, 8 hour rate is 145AH.
The T-1275 served me well, I think the heat of this May, June and July camping in the Owens Valley and desert surround is what really did one cell in, the cell closest to the negative battery post. SG just kept on falling, falling, falling. I knew she was done when the last morning of camping, with a good charge the day before, plenty of sun, lead to a shower to use up the last of my fresh water tank in the morning, and the shower head flow got lower and lower, to near a trickle. Shut it down, fired up the honda generator, and the flow level came right back up. Can not complain, the T-1275 was free, I got about 2 years of camping use out of it, so it was a win, win.
The good thing about the AGM is I will no longer be dipping and burning holes in good shirts and pants, so it has already paid for itself, Levi 505's aint cheap anymore these days, I've wrecked 2 pair dipping battery acid, don't know how, but I do know what battery acid holes look like in cotton denim.
The other was to meet up with some old friends, which turned into happy hour, which turned into... getting on the road sober at 11:30 pm to miss all the BS traffic on Interstate 5 to north los angeles.
This DEKA battery looks brand spanking new. I will need to check the date of mfg, but I wanted to shout out thanks to You Know Who, for the lead. I believe at a 20hr rate, the ad claims 175 AH, but it is 20 hr 158 AH, according to the specs, 8 hour rate is 145AH.
The T-1275 served me well, I think the heat of this May, June and July camping in the Owens Valley and desert surround is what really did one cell in, the cell closest to the negative battery post. SG just kept on falling, falling, falling. I knew she was done when the last morning of camping, with a good charge the day before, plenty of sun, lead to a shower to use up the last of my fresh water tank in the morning, and the shower head flow got lower and lower, to near a trickle. Shut it down, fired up the honda generator, and the flow level came right back up. Can not complain, the T-1275 was free, I got about 2 years of camping use out of it, so it was a win, win.
The good thing about the AGM is I will no longer be dipping and burning holes in good shirts and pants, so it has already paid for itself, Levi 505's aint cheap anymore these days, I've wrecked 2 pair dipping battery acid, don't know how, but I do know what battery acid holes look like in cotton denim.
