How long do we want batteries to last ?
IMO, and IME, nothing is simpler to maintain than LA RV batteries. When connected to a decent charger, and watered once...maybe twice a year, and maybe hosed off once in a while, they last an easy 8-1...
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N3YMY wrote:2oldman wrote:
Tell me the ones in your truck lasts 10 years.
Not a fair measure.
The charging systems in most vehicles over charge batteries due to the typical vehicle usage pattern (ie short trips)
If high quality chargers were used in vehicles, perhaps.
Vehicle batteries have a far harder life than the average coach battery IMHO...
Actually my truck batteries lasted over 10 years in my duramax. and the one in my mercedes was going on 15 years when I replaced it. In neither case had they "failed", just figured it was time to replace them.
Mercedes has an advantage, not under the hood, under the back seat and they use a very high quality construction, but still OEM was reasonably priced, around $100.
but then our climate certainly is more "benign" than most, not real hot in the summer, not real cold in the winter. But the duramax 9 year old batteries started the truck no problem that had been sitting in -30F weather outside for a week last winter in idaho.
