TC Battery Replacement - Upgrade Options
Boy when it rains ... it pours. My 4 year old, non-maintenance free Interstate Group 24, deep cycle 12v battery seems to have given up the ghost. It appears to have boiled on the one side and after ...
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Is there a budget you are working with? From the options you mentioned, it seems like you are ready to spend a decent amount of money. Space and weight don't appear to be an issue for you so you have a lot of options.
I just switched from two 6v Lifeline AGMs with 300AH (~170)lbs to a single 12v 100AH (~30lbs) LiFePo battery from Battleborn. The cost is significant but but space and weight are important factors I had to consider that drove me in this direction. They won't be for everyone considering the cost but still worth taking a look into.
In regard to capacity, even though I technically "lost" 200AH of rated capacity, in practice it was't more than 50AH because for long life, you want to prevent going below 50% rated capacity on AGMs thus giving my 6v Lifelines a usable capacity of ~150AH. My batteries were also 10 years old so I doubt I was even getting half of that and they didn't hold a charge for longer than a couple of days either.
I haven't had a trip yet with the new LiFePo but will this weekend. I will be reporting back my experiences to my original thread should you find it of interest to your search.
I just switched from two 6v Lifeline AGMs with 300AH (~170)lbs to a single 12v 100AH (~30lbs) LiFePo battery from Battleborn. The cost is significant but but space and weight are important factors I had to consider that drove me in this direction. They won't be for everyone considering the cost but still worth taking a look into.
In regard to capacity, even though I technically "lost" 200AH of rated capacity, in practice it was't more than 50AH because for long life, you want to prevent going below 50% rated capacity on AGMs thus giving my 6v Lifelines a usable capacity of ~150AH. My batteries were also 10 years old so I doubt I was even getting half of that and they didn't hold a charge for longer than a couple of days either.
I haven't had a trip yet with the new LiFePo but will this weekend. I will be reporting back my experiences to my original thread should you find it of interest to your search.
