05-21-2024, 07:49 AM
As to the battery question, I replaced my two un-sealed lead acid engine 8D batteries a year ago with sealed lead acid batteries. The sealed ones are doing just fine. Cleaned out the engine bay last weekend and the battery eye was nice and green on them.
It is nice not having to add water to them, even though they are easy to get to.
I still have un-sealed lead acid batteries for the house side. I rarely run any significant amount of time on just the house batteries so I didn't keep up on maintenance with them like I should have. I checked them last weekend and ended up adding a little over 5 gallons of water to the six, 8D house batteries. Not good. But the batteries have been installed for six years with no issues and still hold voltage good. However, not wanting to wait for them to crash at what would most certainly be an inopportune moment I went ahead and ordered 4 LiFe Po batteries from Epoch to replace them. The new ones are 12V, 460 amp hour. With the deeper discharge ability compared to lead acid, I am almost doubling my usable house battery power.
It is nice not having to add water to them, even though they are easy to get to.
I still have un-sealed lead acid batteries for the house side. I rarely run any significant amount of time on just the house batteries so I didn't keep up on maintenance with them like I should have. I checked them last weekend and ended up adding a little over 5 gallons of water to the six, 8D house batteries. Not good. But the batteries have been installed for six years with no issues and still hold voltage good. However, not wanting to wait for them to crash at what would most certainly be an inopportune moment I went ahead and ordered 4 LiFe Po batteries from Epoch to replace them. The new ones are 12V, 460 amp hour. With the deeper discharge ability compared to lead acid, I am almost doubling my usable house battery power.
Doug and Cathy Musick
Coach 370
1994, 45', non-slide
DD60, Allison 741