there is always an evaporation issue with flooded..
They have to be maintained on a regular schedule in order to have
extended life beyond 5 yrs
AGM/GEL expensive but reliable with little maintenance. Give em a good
home and little venting and get
7 to 10 with those.
On 1/4/2018 3:47 PM, Robert Andrews wrote:
Sounds like a problem with the Charge controller being incorrectly
set. If this is on-grid, I would lower the voltage the charge
controller is maintaining and make sure it is set to NOT do any
equalize cycles.
Then flooded should be better. Of course if the environment is
causing evaporation that is a different problem.
I didn't find telecom batteries were worth the expense. So if I
dumped wet, I would probably go with sealed Marine..
Best,
Robert
On 01/04/2018 01:38 PM, TJ Trout wrote:
I have been really liking flooded batteries over the last 10 years or
so because I am able to service the battery and extend the life but I
am finding that on sites that I forget to add distilled water at
least twice a year sometimes the batteries dry out due to the charge
controller over gassing the batteries.
Right now I'm trying to decide between Walmart deep Cycles, rack
mount telecom batteries or just sealed RV Marine deep cycle batteries.
What is the best bang-for-the-buck currently considering the life
span and capacity ?
Thanks
TJ
