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Maintenance, Servicing, and Mechanical / Re: What battery do you recommend?
« Last post by STJIM on Today at 12:22 pm »I'll chime-in here :
IMHO opinion lithium batteries are way over-rated and too expensive for my budget. A good AGM battery is more than plenty good. I buy the cheapest AGM batteries I can find online and have never had a problem with one ( yet ) over the last 12 years. I do admit I'm a PM freak and replace my batteries every 5 years or so, even if they are testing "good'. Why wait for a failure on the road hundreds of miles from home ?
I keep the old batteries on a maintainer as a spare, just in case. I admit I do have some 10 year old used spare AGM batteries that are still testing "good".
Don't ask me how a hand-held tester can load test a battery - it must be magic.
I have a battery tester like this one : https://www.ebay.com/itm/195713132142?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=neufwymfqag&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
IMHO opinion lithium batteries are way over-rated and too expensive for my budget. A good AGM battery is more than plenty good. I buy the cheapest AGM batteries I can find online and have never had a problem with one ( yet ) over the last 12 years. I do admit I'm a PM freak and replace my batteries every 5 years or so, even if they are testing "good'. Why wait for a failure on the road hundreds of miles from home ?
I keep the old batteries on a maintainer as a spare, just in case. I admit I do have some 10 year old used spare AGM batteries that are still testing "good".
Don't ask me how a hand-held tester can load test a battery - it must be magic.
I have a battery tester like this one : https://www.ebay.com/itm/195713132142?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=neufwymfqag&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY