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pjw73nh
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Jun 29, 2017

Why can't I get a TRUE Deep cycle battery anymore?

As the title says. Why can't I get a true deep cycle battery any more? I suppose I could get a $250+ high end one (Optima/Trojan etc), but I am looking in the sub $150 range. I use my trailer 6 tim...
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MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Jun 30, 2017
What ails your Screwy 31 is uh er "avoidance?" of performing a Charge Efficiency Factor drawdown test.

Regular flooded CEF 84-88 CEF. The Screwy might be in the seventies and I do not mean "high" seventies. Then again it might be in the sixties. Heart/Lung machines seem miraculous. What evil lurks in the heart of a babysat battery. De shadow know.

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