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Sometimes with small systems the walmartha (Johnson Controls sourced) marine deep cycles do make sense. They did for years for me, still probably could but low sun hours and cloudy winter days on end really suck the life out of lead acid batteries.could just have heard to Walmart or cosco and picked up a new $100 battery or 12 of them honestly.
With cheap LiFePo availability at 20 cents/Wh and everspark deep cycles at 14 cents, though, in some circumstances LiFePo is a better choice. With big systems LiFePo is basically a no-brainer on a ten year scale with lead acid being a 3-5 year life cycle on cheap batteries.
Of course you can buy good lead acid and do much better lifespan, but the cost factor exceeds the dubious cheapo LiFePo. Then again, in certain setups where freezing temperatures and need for charging exist lead acid takes the prize imho
Maybe you should regroup and do that? Get the battery warranteed and sell them, sell the 24V AIO, and buy some EverStarch batteries. 2-5 years with care, 1 year with long periods of low state of charge.could have definitely built a robust bomb proof simple 12v system for what I have spent trying to chase my tail.
I just bought 2 LiFePo 140Ah but I’ll keep them inside to not freeze. I got them because last November/December hit my walmartha batteries hard with four weeks of cloudiness. With LiFePo they won’t care if they’re not fully recharged.
I will select two, three or four of my lead acids (by 24-hour-rested hygrometer readings) to run lights, phone charger, etc and just have the lithium’s run the furnace fan and fridge to begin with. After I have a sense of things I may opt out of lead acid altogether. Athough I think it’s so painless to run two systems, why not?