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mark52
Feb 23, 2019Explorer II
Update:
I went ahead and made my purchase. After more and more research on AGM batteries I became less and less impressed them. It seems that a lot of the claims about what they can do have been disproven. I would REALLY love to have a battery that charges up to 5 times faster, but I don't think that that exists unless you spend A LOT of money. In fact, the battery dealer that I bought my batteries from confirmed that AGM batteries have a hard time recovering from a deep loss of charge and can actually take longer than a flooded type battery to charge. My purchase was 4 new Trojan T-145 flooded batteries. Ive had Trojan batteries in our last two motorhomes and they have always worked great. Hopefully these T-145's can handle all the fancy equipment in our new coach.
Interesting note - I don't know if its true but the T-105 may have approximately twice the life span than the T-145 and is a very nice battery. I felt it more important to have the 260 AH @ 20 hour rate from the T-145 in my case though.
Thanks for everyone's input!!
I went ahead and made my purchase. After more and more research on AGM batteries I became less and less impressed them. It seems that a lot of the claims about what they can do have been disproven. I would REALLY love to have a battery that charges up to 5 times faster, but I don't think that that exists unless you spend A LOT of money. In fact, the battery dealer that I bought my batteries from confirmed that AGM batteries have a hard time recovering from a deep loss of charge and can actually take longer than a flooded type battery to charge. My purchase was 4 new Trojan T-145 flooded batteries. Ive had Trojan batteries in our last two motorhomes and they have always worked great. Hopefully these T-145's can handle all the fancy equipment in our new coach.
Interesting note - I don't know if its true but the T-105 may have approximately twice the life span than the T-145 and is a very nice battery. I felt it more important to have the 260 AH @ 20 hour rate from the T-145 in my case though.
Thanks for everyone's input!!
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