Kayteg1 wrote:
restlessways wrote:
Those Battle Born batteries are great if you can afford them. I just couldn't stomach spending $1,000+ per 100 ah..
OP did not say how many he is considering, but coming from 3/4 tons, that would be like 10?
Or $10,000 spend just on shaving few hundreds lb from 12,000 lb (?) rig.
Sure not solution for average camper.
He said he has 12 AGM batteries right now, and was looking to cut that in half since lithium can be discharged to zero vs the 50% on lead acid. Still, $6k+ for batteries is nutso, in my humble opinion.
I own a private campsite and have a neighbor who built a massive solar system. He's got 22 batteries and something like 2000 watts of solar panels. I forget exactly. He's also running a 3k inverter/charger and all the associated wiring/fuse blocks, controllers, etc. He's got MAJOR money into it. And he's still running his generator for at least 3 hours per day. He'll never get his money's worth.
For myself, I have found I really don't need to consume that much power. I use a combination of a 100 watt panel, a 2k GoPower inverter, and a Honda 2200i generator along with the aforementioned twin 6 volt Duracell golf cart batteries. It provides me with more than enough.
