Part Time AGM Battery Maintainer

The entire design philosophy of VRB is wildly different than of traditional flooded batteries. It gets way too nerdy to discuss here. Spiral batteries cut their teeth bouncing over off-road races like the Baja Mil. In WW II many Pacific Fleet submarines had to report back to base after a severe depth charging. Most of their battery plates and separators lay in the sediment chamber. Exide was a happy camper.

But too many times I see folks pronounce a decent quality VRB as being "superior" in all ways to their flooded battery that it replaced. I'll guarantee a decent VRB will outshine a minimalist quality flooded battery any day of the week.