AGM or LiFePo4?
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Anhedonic
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John61CT said:
That is great to hear! Their name is pretty much unsearchable because it is so short and hyphenated so I can't find much in the way of references here or elsewhere.
What remains to be seen is how much this is all going to cost.
frater secessus
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Flooded lead acid whips AGM in cost analysis, about 1/2 the cost in both short and long terms. There are legit reasons to go AGM but IMO very, very few buy them for those reasons. More of a "I saw it on youtube" thing. Not talking about anyone in the thread, btw.picopat said:
IF someone knows what they are doing and avoids killing them early, LiFePO4 might beat both in addition to the other benefits.
I recently replaced my deeply abused (bought used) 6v FLA bank. Surprised they lasted this long. I am FT now, but I can't snowbird yet as I am still working. This means I am tied to one (awesome) area which has temperature extremes. So I replaced it with another 2x 6v FLA bank which I expect to last me until I retire and can snowbird. At that point I will go LFP (or whatever the best option is at that time).
frater secessus
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John61CT said:
Yup. I've posted a first draft of an article on learning how to search effectively. Had it on my mind for a while but your post provided the inspiration. A cold Tecate didn't hurt, either.
Anhedonic
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Unfortunately, Google does not see certain punctuation marks when you search. Further, the + and - operands not longer function as they once did. Boolean search logic ain't what it used to be.
Try this.
- https://www.google.com/search?q=alt-e+batteries
- https://www.google.com/search?q=alt-e+batteries
Anhedonic
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It's OK. I don't need help understanding how to do a google search, but I appreciate the thought.
frater secessus
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Anhedoni said:
- still works. .+ was a casualty of google+. They started using it the way twitter uses @.
frater secessus
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Anhedonic said:
We took you at your word:
Without background info on your search-fu it was a reasonable assumption.
Anhedonic
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Fair enough.
frater secessus
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Absolutely. I have no idea why forum search is so consistently bad. I mean, they have the info in their own database.
Anhedonic said:I have been planning my electrical system (as some of you may have seen in other posts.) I was set on a small AGM setup with some solar and a connection to both starter batter and shore power with a generator to do the AC and wheelchair charging related heavy lifting.
My family has been helping me to get things going and I have been told that, if it really is better, that I would be given the money for a LiFePo4 battery. This of course blows all the research I've done and brings chaos to my planning.
So, should I go with lithium or stick with AGM given the choice? If lithium, what changes will I need to make to my setup to make it work and not kill the roughly cube-shaped killobuck I might end up with in my van? Any recommendations for good batteries? I'm hoping for either a 200 or 300ah battery as it may be the only battery I end up using in the build and I have no clue when I'll be able to afford another.
Thoughts?
Why not try the LiFePO4? Just like your family said, maybe they did the right choice for you. :heart:
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