02-15-2014, 08:09 PM
Marc, these are rated at 2000+ cycles. Agm's are typically rated at about 500+- cycles. So they should last 4 times as long. They weigh about 1/2 as much and take up less than 1/2 as much room. You can recharge them as fast as you want with as big a charger as you can get. And to make it even better you can typically get 80% usable capacity, where AGMs only get 50% at most.
So I replaced my 1500 amp hours of lead acids with 1000 amp hours of LiFeO4s and am getting almost twice the usable capacity! Another benefit is they have very little voltage sag under heavy loads. Like running your microwave, watch your battery voltage start dropping on AGMS. On these the voltage will only drop a few tenths of a volt. That's one reason the usable capacity is much more.
Plus I like to play with stuff like this.
Now all this said I wouldn't recommend someone installing these unless they want to do a lot of tweaking and reading.
So I replaced my 1500 amp hours of lead acids with 1000 amp hours of LiFeO4s and am getting almost twice the usable capacity! Another benefit is they have very little voltage sag under heavy loads. Like running your microwave, watch your battery voltage start dropping on AGMS. On these the voltage will only drop a few tenths of a volt. That's one reason the usable capacity is much more.
Plus I like to play with stuff like this.
Now all this said I wouldn't recommend someone installing these unless they want to do a lot of tweaking and reading.
Forest & Cindy Olivier
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