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- OH, OH, specs show cold cranking amps. Must be an inferior not real Deep Cycle, or so I read here. :)
bumpy Bumpyroad wrote:
OH, OH, specs show cold cranking amps. Must be an inferior not real Deep Cycle, or so I read here. :)
bumpy
look how low the CCA rating is!! Not really designed as a starting battery. Shows they are trading of CCA for something.
The CCA rating on the delco's in my silverado is about 800A.- Yup, well known in boating circles for many decades that Rolls batteries are.... well.. the Rolls Royces of wet cell batteries.
- From all I hear they are good batteries but I usually give 75 as a typical G-24 battery, 80 is close enough to not worry about the difference.
What makes a battery Superior in my book is birthdays.. Or rather anniversary of installation days. NOTE that this depends on several things not just the battery, but also the care and feeding. (Owner, converter).
But if you get a battery that with proper care and feeding only lasts say 4 years (or less) that is a BAD BATTERY and I would look for a better brand.
If, when it dies, you find it is a rebellous teenager... GET MORE OF THAT BRAND.
Average for decent batteries is 7-10, mine went 9. (Interstate) and I do not yet know how my long my Deka's will last (Check back in a decade, I put 'em in this last spring). - Well made batteries can handle engine starting depending on outside temperatures. Are some of you forgetting that your MH has a momentary switch to allow the house-batteries to help start your MH when the starting battery is near dead?
Also; the garbage that comes with cars in the southern states for starting batteries doesn't cut it up here in Minnesota winters. - The post is for folks who do not have the height for group GC batteries or the space for a second battery. Look at the weight, then secondly at the thickness of the positive plates. I discovered via sleuthing that many "premium" GC batteries today have .105" positive plates. This battery is considerably heavier than Interstate, Sears, Deka, and Trojan group 24 batteries. Companies that are ethical advertise battery plate thickness. Revealing plate thickness is not like giving up the formula for Coca Cola, it is a legitimate construction value that should be mandated to be shown by law with other construction and performance (BCI) standards. I dare you to try and find the plate thickness of your favorite brand of battery - go ahead and try.
- And what is the plate thickness of a Trojan T-1275 with plastic seperators, that sweeper battery you keep talking about that needs to be charged slow and all day long?
- Good question. Does Trojan list plate thickness anymore? Me? Talk about scrubber batteries? Scrubbers at best are compromise design. They have to work a long time at a stretch. In order to recover from TEN to TWENTY PERCENT charge level to as full as possible, they are left on a charger all day long. These batteries are horribly abused, renewed often and constantly complained about by scrubber owners.
When performance drops off (service hours) they are recycled. No sense in hauling a machine to a supermarket so it can scrub or polish 83% of its workload.
After listening to 5-days of constant griping in Las Vegas I about went nuts. Told them to invent propane engine scrubbers. That made me a marked man... - They never made a GC-2 based floor scrubber, eh? Oh well, good for business for Trojan batteries, me thinks.
Trojan now sells a lot of them for pushing around golf carts. Do they still get a 10 to 20% SOC while 4 of them push around a 48v golf cart? I don't have the answer to that.
I do know that a Battery stamped H-1 was done, finished by January, 2014. Start date for the battery on the golf course, unknown. Trojan warranties the batteries for 18 months. 1.5 x 365 days = 548 charge cycles.
Of course, my use doesn't beat on it, either, 40 or 50 amps tops, off of what's left of the original 150, maybe 135 now, is not severe.
Since upgrading to a 150w 12v solar panel, looks to be capable of 8.9 to 9 amps, and a Solar 30 charge controller, I think it will be a perfect match to a T-1275. Time to sell the portable folding 12V 120W solar panel. - A golf course is Allah and 16 virgins to a T-1275, as compared to life in a scrubber. Golf car 3 cell batteries will live longer than a 1275 because of acid surplus and more lenient plate/separator loading tolerances. But this is quibbling. A more definitive gain is the L-16 over the 1275, but then up jumps the ugly weight, space, issues. A 1275 is an Olympic jump ahead of an RV car jar battery (Rolls excepted) for durability.
Configure 6 3 cell batteries for wiring versus 3 6 cell batteries and you will see a point of why golf courses are starting to use cars with 6 cell batteries. T1275's are taller so they occupy less space.
