Lithium Battery Charging System
It is time for a new battery in my '04 Lance 921. I am looking at an Interstate battery they sell up the road. But through my research into charging systems/problems, I got to thinking about Lithium...
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JoeChiOhki wrote:
As long as you're buying the top end Lithium RV deep cycles you'll be good, just make sure you have budgeted enough to get equivalent AH's to your existing setup and for the appropriate changes in your DC and AC->DC Charging hardware.
The more budget friendly Lithium batteries have record incidents of cell failures, as to bring them down in price, the quality and chemistry of the battery is cheapened.
You should budget around $2000 for 200AH of Quality Lithium battery capacity and around $350-400 for the charging hardware as a good starting point.
For me, I'll likely do the shift to Lithium as soon as Battle Born batteries get equivalent AH capacity to the J185h FLA batteries with a similar foot print and are price equivalent to their FLA predecessors in my system currently.
your about 4 years old with thoes prices, you can cut the battery prices in half or more now days. unless you insist on buying battle born (which theres nothing wrong with if thats what you want, but quality can be had for a lot less today) . my charging system cost me nothing, just a switch of a jumper on one and a different programing on the other.. I had to replace my power centre in my old camper anyways so I bought one that was LFP compatable, and I did the same when I decided to add solar. My 5th wheel will probably cost me about what you said for charging as I have to change my converter and my solar charger but it will only be about 12-1500 bucks for around 900AH of battery.
