Just curious - why Lithiums are so heavy?
100 AH, flooded, 66-69 lbs. 100 AH, Li, 29-31 lbs. Brain-dead sellers jumping on a new bandwagon, "One-fifth the weight of a traditional battery", yahooo.... More usable capacity, yes, but not...
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Always interesting to see the different viewpoints, and angles on what is important to my fellow RV'ing community:)!
Sometimes I catch myself nodding my head... (Mexicowander - Dang it! Now I've added a 'To Do' diet minded review of the 'essential' gear that has accumulated in our coach... I always kid my wife about our Weight Creep. And with over 11K pounds of useable CCC - I can carry one heck of a lot!!).
Other times I catch myself shaking my head from side to side... You see, contrary to the above comment. Weight is important to me, enough that along with hopefully longer life cycles, I'm planning to shift to Lithium when our current House Battery X's 4 L16 Lifelines need replacement. Weight savings, is one of my primary reasons. Sure, I can carry lots of weight. But our coaches ISL does an 'adequate' job now, but we also plan to add weight in the next year or so when we shift Toads to a F150 from the CRV... And that will make that ISL's power to weight ratio that less comfortable. So if I can shave a few hundred pounds shifting to Lithium, I see that as a positive in the rational for doing so.
And gee, rock gut whiskey will get me a buzz - but I prefer the refinement and enjoyment of that a properly aged single malt scotch brings to the buzz. (Lead wet cells being 'rock gut', and lithium being a nice scotch.) Do I need it, no. Can I get by with out the good scotch, yes. Will I still buy good scotch vs rock gut, YES!
Luckily, as I hope to get at least 3-5 more years out of our now ~5 year old Lifeline's - the lithium industry can mature like a nice aging single malt... Hopefully when the time comes, I'll not have to sacrifice my scotch allowance to procure the replacement bank of lithium. Time will tell...
I'm also fortunate my DW likes a well aged, with a nice trace of witticism too, man. I consider myself her 'fine scotch' fix equivalent!! (Though, she has been known to possibly glance at a 'rock gut' with a 'six pack' chaser set of abs... but then comes to sip her 'fine scotch' man:)!).
Best to all, and heck - I'll say cheers too,
Smitty
Sometimes I catch myself nodding my head... (Mexicowander - Dang it! Now I've added a 'To Do' diet minded review of the 'essential' gear that has accumulated in our coach... I always kid my wife about our Weight Creep. And with over 11K pounds of useable CCC - I can carry one heck of a lot!!).
Other times I catch myself shaking my head from side to side... You see, contrary to the above comment. Weight is important to me, enough that along with hopefully longer life cycles, I'm planning to shift to Lithium when our current House Battery X's 4 L16 Lifelines need replacement. Weight savings, is one of my primary reasons. Sure, I can carry lots of weight. But our coaches ISL does an 'adequate' job now, but we also plan to add weight in the next year or so when we shift Toads to a F150 from the CRV... And that will make that ISL's power to weight ratio that less comfortable. So if I can shave a few hundred pounds shifting to Lithium, I see that as a positive in the rational for doing so.
And gee, rock gut whiskey will get me a buzz - but I prefer the refinement and enjoyment of that a properly aged single malt scotch brings to the buzz. (Lead wet cells being 'rock gut', and lithium being a nice scotch.) Do I need it, no. Can I get by with out the good scotch, yes. Will I still buy good scotch vs rock gut, YES!
Luckily, as I hope to get at least 3-5 more years out of our now ~5 year old Lifeline's - the lithium industry can mature like a nice aging single malt... Hopefully when the time comes, I'll not have to sacrifice my scotch allowance to procure the replacement bank of lithium. Time will tell...
I'm also fortunate my DW likes a well aged, with a nice trace of witticism too, man. I consider myself her 'fine scotch' fix equivalent!! (Though, she has been known to possibly glance at a 'rock gut' with a 'six pack' chaser set of abs... but then comes to sip her 'fine scotch' man:)!).
Best to all, and heck - I'll say cheers too,
Smitty
