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MEXICOWANDERER's avatar
Nov 06, 2014

An Advantage Of The Truly Superior Flooded Battery

Countless stories, endless Anecdotes, fighting to regain full specific gravity, unequal cell gravity. Phantoms of the flooded battery.

Once experience has been gained with cells that have been manufactured to proper engineering standards and not a cash register tape, a person can appreciate how much easier the accumulator is to manage. Well made batteries are simply much easier to manage, and if the batteries are heavily cycled the difference is magnified. They recharge to 100% easier, cells become unequal far less often, and if do do need equalization, significantly less effort and energy is expended rectifying the problem.

I thought I would toss this out in the ring because I believe I've not seen these attributes mentioned before. A superior battery is simply not a costly battery that lasts longer.
  • It seems most people here that do long term boondocking are using cheaper batteries. I'd be interested in hearing how people with the higher quality batts are doing. I know mine are VERY easy to maintain but they get pampered so that might have more to do with the easy maintenance than the quality of the batts.

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