New solar project
I have a 30 foot travel trailer with plenty of space on the roof and I want to do some remote camping. I'd like to be able to run the refrigerator, watch TV through-out the day, and be able to use la...
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daveyboy12 wrote:The maintenance and weight of my 6 Trojans drove me nuts.
How much maintenance are we talking about with the batteries, typically? What is a good GEL battery for solar. Do they have a decent life?
Water once maybe twice a month which is a pain with 18 cells to deal with. I bought some water miser caps (those yellow ones) which worked - for about a year. My batteries were on a slide out tray which had to be reinforced and I had to support it with a board to boot. Plus they never get fully charged - that's just too many Ah for my 800w of solar.
You don't want a GEL battery, you want AGM. I'd look at Deka.
