Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Subscribers do not see these advertisements
Hi all,
I'm considering replacing my existing leisure batteries with three new ones, so I'm looking for the best cheap batteries I can find.
If you were buying 3 new 85ah batteries, what would you buy, why, and where from?
TIA
Bryan
Hi all,
I'm considering replacing my existing leisure batteries with three new ones, so I'm looking for the best cheap batteries I can find.
Bryan
But I am thinking of the Elecsol 100 amp batteries on sale at
Bob
Subscribers do not see these advertisements
Subscribers do not see these advertisements
My recommendation came based on the OP request "best cheap batteries "
Surely Electrasol aren't "cheap"
I was conned into buying one some time ago and it was a total waste of time, money and payload...
JJ
PS. IMO you can buy an awful lot of £55 batteries for the money for one Electrasol....
Subscribers do not see these advertisements
I sent them an email and they just phoned. Spoke to a chap call Bill the manager. Very helpful
an 85 amp is £53.39 collected.
Bob
Bryan.. I've posted this one before,
This company sell direct to the public so no middle shark.
http://www.lincon.co.uk/
Don't waste money on Elecsol .. Google and see why,
I bought a 120AH one several years ago for a euro van.. it failed after about 3 years , Elecsol offered 2/5 discount on a replacement ( the balance of the warranty period ) .. I told them to stuff it and have only bought cheap ones since ..
Battery warranties are not worth the paper they are written on.. the only difference between a 1 , 3, and 5 year warranty is the price ..
Subscribers do not see these advertisements
Thanks Jim, can't see any prices on the website, do you have to ring them for prices or am I missing something?
sent them an email and they just phoned. Spoke to a chap call Bill the manager. Very helpful
an 85 amp is £53.39 collected.
Same route that I went down,got 3X ex UPS bateries from ebay coming up to 4 years ago now,charged them with a 3 stage auto charger and have not had hookup since,cost £25 each.Since getting my RV and finding out about everything on the net from you forum guru types and a sister site in US of A as there are no manuals it appears and everything is generic, Ive been researching things, one of which is batterys.
If you want to links Ill post them and forgive me if Im teaching granny to suck eggs here...
Leisure batteries deep cycle fail because they drop below a certain percentage..lets say 50%.
When next charged they have already grown crystals on the plate throuigh the chemical reaction, this is known as sulfation.
When the supplier tells you the battery can be recharged 500 times he means that on the 500th charge you might get a little bit of power into those batteries but not much as they are going to fail soon.
The reason is the sulfation. Sulfation actual waterproofs the sides of the plate in the battery cell so the liquid can no longer touch the plate which is all so very important for charging and storing.
So to recap,
from the first recharge you battery starts to fail.....nice huh?
Good news...you can buy desulfation units that charge your battery with a desulfation process and convert the sulfation back into the liquid..be it acid gel or whatever.
This desulfation process wiill extend the battery life from 500 deep cycles expectancy to around 900, almost doubling the batterys life.
These boffin in the article writes..he estimates 85 percent of dead batteries thrown away are in fact suffering sulfation and can be reconditioned through desulfation and will be 100 percent efficient again.
Now the boffin gets interesting...which is probably more than I am at the moment writing this
He then advises going down your local warehouses on trading estates and getting folk lift batteries or golf clubs for buggy batteries that are dead and then reconditioning them.
The cost of a good heavy duty desulfation charger.....ermmm about the cost of a new battery according to my research....
However if you plan to rv for more than 500 deep cycles and you do manage to get free dead batteries then it will pay for itself on your first successful freebie.
Why dont companies do the desulfation themselves...1 they dont have time 2 they dont know about it.
This is the route I am going down at the moment, Ill let you know if Im successful.
Oh and last but not least sulfation is also the cause of why long term unused batteries fail. My rv had 2600miles on the clock and had been stood for nearly 4 years and it puzzled me why the battery...brand new 4 years ago wouldnt hold a charge...total discharge trying to start the genny...now I know the answer..and now so do you.
Hope this helps
regards
Harry
oo0 here is the link to the boffin
Link Removed
Franks Caravans sold me and any other Funsters 110 amp batteries for £55 at the Shepton show.
Since last year we have had ten from them and they have all been fine. They come with a two year guarantee.
JJ
Subscribers do not see these advertisements