Duracell Procell vs

TreeBass

Duracell Procell. They are 215AH with 105 minutes of reserve at a 75A rate. Out the door for 6 of these would run $661.44 with taxes and the exchanges.

T-105 $774 out the door

or Contenental $594 out the door

Which one?

BGW

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jakesnake27

Most people go with the old "get what you pay for" saying with batteries.
For myself, I have only had first-hand experience with Interstate and Trojan and they have both been great for me...
So I really can't speak for any of your three brands.

yurtle

One of his three brands is Trojan's more popular battery.

I got nine years out of my Exides, back before I knew what I was doing, and had as good a charger. Hoping to top that with my eight Trojan T-105s.

jakesnake27

DUH, what was I thinking.................

Trojans are considered to be the best...

yurtle

One thing you will need to do is make sure you're comparing apples to apples. You first battery listed is 215 amp-hours. T-105s are 225, and we don't know what the third one is. Ask them for the 20 hour rating, as batteries have multiple ratings.

yurtle

If you have eight volt batteries, you may not be familiar with Trojan's six volt "name".

JohnnieB

Based on AH alone, you will get more charge cycles from the higher AH batteries.

Assuming an average daily discharge of 67.5AH (That is down to 70% SoC for a 225AH battery) you will get approximately 2044 charge cycles with the Trojans (225AH), for an annual cost of $138.31 and approximately 1978 charge cycles with the Duracells (215AH) for an annual cost of $122.14.

What is the AH rating if the Continental batteries? They might be a better buy.

TreeBass

thanks guys, I'll find out the AH on the continental batterys. I can purchase either of the three, but...if I get the cheaper batteries, then I can also get a DPI from Scotty :)

I have a manuel charger now, and cant always get to the lease weekly.

If I can get 5 years out of any of those batteries, that would be great.

edit: this is a 36v all stock 91 marathon

yurtle

True life expectancy of batteries are dependent on certain assumptions, such as how often a week you run them, and how far you run them down. If you bought a set of batteries and plugged them into a DPI and never used them, they'd still eventually die, so the more often and the longer runs you have will benefit more from higher amp-hour batteries than someone who checks the mail once a week. How you you figure dollars and amp-hours will be complicated, and you have to make certain assumptions.

jakesnake27

Funny thing is is that I know the name T-105 (6v) and T-875 (8v) and I still overlooked it!!!