Trojan t-1275 vs Signature series J150 RE
Before winter, I need to get a dedicated flooded house battery, my Northstar AGM-27 has been working hard as both house and engine battery for the last 4 months, and I want to return it to engine star...
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Jim in Denver has hit it point center. You would not believe internal wars that go on inside battery company board rooms. My preference leans -strongly- toward companies that have genuine engineers steering the boat. Rolls & Surrette, Trojan, Lifeline, Deka. I have tasted the insanity in sales oriented leadership and it gives me a stomach ache. When it doubt believe the engineer oriented companies.
There are companies out there who employ substandard engineers, play copycat except they spend 50% of the time cutting corners and expenses, and the remaining 50% stamping out fires from mismanaged production. It is sad. They pay salesmen as much salary and commission as they do engineer's salary.
Your hydrometer makes you BS proof with regards to properly charging a flooded battery. What you do not and can not know is how high the pallets of warranty batteries are stacked on the back loading dock.
Trojan industrial batteries are expensive. Yet the company is extremely competitive sales-number-wise and it is flourishing as compared to some others. Use wisdom. How can a more expensive product compete with a competitor. All of these companies have been around a long time. Long enough for things to have naurally sorted and sifted. Rolls is even more extremely price biased. Yet they cannot build enough batteries to satisfy demand. Why is that? Hypnosis? Billboards placed alongside interstate highways?
My products were always expensive. Priced alongside factory reman alternators. Yet production never slowed. It is entirely stupid to produce a "me-too" product and enter the price-war arena. Illegal alien laborers, wrong side of the tracks warehouses and scumbag makeshift delivery systems are impossible to fight. Producing a better than OEM reman, better than factory brand new alternator was easy for me. Then I managed to end up at UCLA med-center and The City of Hope. My health failed me. But memories of "I drove up here from Oceanside, because..." was my reward. Excellence has it's advantages. It was the only way I could carve a niche.
It's exactly the same with batteries. When a company puffs its chest out and says "We Lead!" pay attention. I never did get a reply back from Fullriver regarding the thickenss of their positive plates. That one glaring omission decided things for me.
Again, use wisdom and it will lead you true.
There are companies out there who employ substandard engineers, play copycat except they spend 50% of the time cutting corners and expenses, and the remaining 50% stamping out fires from mismanaged production. It is sad. They pay salesmen as much salary and commission as they do engineer's salary.
Your hydrometer makes you BS proof with regards to properly charging a flooded battery. What you do not and can not know is how high the pallets of warranty batteries are stacked on the back loading dock.
Trojan industrial batteries are expensive. Yet the company is extremely competitive sales-number-wise and it is flourishing as compared to some others. Use wisdom. How can a more expensive product compete with a competitor. All of these companies have been around a long time. Long enough for things to have naurally sorted and sifted. Rolls is even more extremely price biased. Yet they cannot build enough batteries to satisfy demand. Why is that? Hypnosis? Billboards placed alongside interstate highways?
My products were always expensive. Priced alongside factory reman alternators. Yet production never slowed. It is entirely stupid to produce a "me-too" product and enter the price-war arena. Illegal alien laborers, wrong side of the tracks warehouses and scumbag makeshift delivery systems are impossible to fight. Producing a better than OEM reman, better than factory brand new alternator was easy for me. Then I managed to end up at UCLA med-center and The City of Hope. My health failed me. But memories of "I drove up here from Oceanside, because..." was my reward. Excellence has it's advantages. It was the only way I could carve a niche.
It's exactly the same with batteries. When a company puffs its chest out and says "We Lead!" pay attention. I never did get a reply back from Fullriver regarding the thickenss of their positive plates. That one glaring omission decided things for me.
Again, use wisdom and it will lead you true.
