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15 Feb ’12
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Sam's Club. They are ~$82 each without the $15 core charge. These are cheaper than most solar batteries and easier to find. For example, I can drive to Sam's Club to pick up more vs. ordering some and coordinating freight delivery from some place online. They are the cheapest way to get into storing power and give you the most bang for the buck.
didn't even think to check sams club,thanks for the heads up pork
5 Mar ’12
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15 Feb ’12
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Nice! was the warranty through duracell or sam's club? People can talk bad about wal-mart or sam's club but their return policy is pretty solid, at least it was. Years ago my wife had a old audi and I bought a battery from wal-mart, the voltage regulator on the audi was bad and almost blew up the battery, it was bulging at the sides, leaking acid everywhere, wal-mart exchanged it with no issues
5 Mar ’12
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Warranty is kind of from both. The manufacturer takes the returns but Sam's handles it. You can walk in, they test them, and then give you new ones.
15 Feb ’12
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how's the new bank working out?
5 Mar ’12
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Working out great. We haven't run the generator in close to 2 weeks and we haven't even come close to hitting the 75% charged mark. Having these batteries, and frankly it being a very sunny February, have completely changed our solar experience.
19 Feb ’12
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30804 said:
Working out great. We havent run the generator in close to 2 weeks and we havent even come close to hitting the 75% charged mark. Having these batteries, and frankly it being a very sunny February, have completely changed our solar experience.
Sorry for my ignorance, but you haven't gotten fully charged yet, or you haven't used more than 25% of your energy store??
5 Mar ’12
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Sorry, the latter. I could have phrased that better. We are using only ~10 to 12% of the battery bank generally per day. We have had enough sun where we are getting charged up nearly every day if not every day. Previously, even though I had a large solar array we couldn't store enough power for our needs. Being able to store more power has really helped out.
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