wopachop wrote:
Most people here drive to campsites and plug into 120v. So the batteries never get cycled. Never see a strong charge. Sits there on solar and ruins the flooded battery.
If that same person did not have solar their batteries would self discharge and then get recharged at a high amp rate. Which i think would improve the life of the battery. Sitting there on float all day is no bueno. From what ive read on the trojan website regarding flooded batteries.
Makes me think some of those bad costco reviews are probably from people with solar hooked up and never give the battery a proper charge.
I dont know I have solar and am pluged in with my fith wheel pretty much 90% of the time. the 14 years I got out of my four 6V GC batteries tend to disagree with you. I think what would be the real cause is people not checking the water enough or draining them down to far causing dammage. shallow discharging is the way to make them last longer.
Steve
