House battery options

[artvonne]

Claiming lifetime in years is nearly meaningless unless you also state the number of cycles and DoD.  FWIW.

-Sean

  Perhaps so, and I believe you know what your talking about. But ive known several Golf car course owners/maintenence managers, as well as a couple golf car repair garages, sales etc.. All have been in agreement that Trojans last 6 - 7 years regardless how much they get cycled, and some get used daily and often cycled twice per day.  I do believe that had I taken better care of these two, I may have got more time out of them, maybe another year. I dont get high cycle rates because im not in it all the time, which is likley typical for most RV'ers/conversion owners. Perhaps in a full time situation AGM's would be a better choice?

  OT, charging a golf car will really spike your electric bill if the kids are running it out every day...lol. Those big chargers pull a healthy load.

[luvrbus]

I would compare amp hrs for the buck how much could it cost to maintain batteries the Lifeline L-16 are 700 bucks for 400 amps at 6v 4 will cost you 2800 bucks for a 800 amp at 12 volts not that big of a battery bank.
The Trojans L-16 will cost 1200 bucks for 760 amp hrs at 12 volts I cannot see the justification in the difference in prices unless it is for mounting reasons you guys remember when the gel batteries were top of the line they were a joke to me everyone back in the 80's had to have the latest and greatest and paid dearly I did lol

good luck