group 24 12 volt deep cycle battery costco

#GROUP 24 12 VOLT DEEP CYCLE BATTERY COSTCO FULL#

That outfit would still cost way more than a few off the shelf LFE.Įven the high grade gel batteries are fragile in comparison to LFE.

#GROUP 24 12 VOLT DEEP CYCLE BATTERY COSTCO FULL#

If you have an enormous FLA battery bank and manage to use 20%, recharging to full with absorb and float every single day, like a starter battery in a car, they will last quite a while like most car batteries.

Let any FLA sit for a week at 30% and you can get a $10 Autozone store card for it. Store your LFE at 30% for a few months and comfortably get 10 to 20% more out of it. Now compare 8 to 15 year expected life span for LFE, and that is to 80% functional capacity.īy the time you add an auto water and high frequency de-sulphate on each battery, you may as well buy LFE even at a 2 to 1 price difference. You would be lucky if you still have 75% FLA capacity after 18 months 50% after 24. If you manage to forget the water for a week or 2, now it's less than a year.

Because after that first year there WILL be significant capacity lost. It would take, an absolute minimum, 2 Costco 100ah batteries ($300) to match 1 low to mid range LFE 100ah ($375-$500) over 1 year usage with a 75ah per day drain. The warranty is for shorts, not capacity loss. Their idea of 'Deep Cycle' and an actual Deep Cycle battery will not stand up to close comparison.Ĭostco only expects 5% of the people to return their $150 battery. Because gel will beat the crap out of FLA Costco on every metric, unless you only need it to work for 6 months.

Group 24 12 volt deep cycle battery costco