Recommendations for Group 31 AGM replacement with LiFPO4

[chowdan]

Firefly advocate here. I replaced my 9 year old lifeline bank with fireflies. No complaints and totally happy.

The fact that you can run these batteries down 80% and do partial recharge is the reason and not killing the battery is the reason I went for them.

Lifepo looks good, but the numbers dont add up and I am not a fan of a BMS. Sure the BMS will save the bank and potential faults from occurring, but adding that complexity to the ROOT of a tree is not something I want there.

[ranger58sb]

Originally Posted by chowdan

I replaced my 9 year old lifeline bank with fireflies.

Seems like a decent lifespan. How well (or not) did you treat them over those 9 years? Do you feel like you got your money's worth?

-Chris

[newhaul]

Originally Posted by chowdan

Firefly advocate here. I replaced my 9 year old lifeline bank with fireflies. No complaints and totally happy.

The fact that you can run these batteries down 80% and do partial recharge is the reason and not killing the battery is the reason I went for them.

Lifepo looks good, but the numbers dont add up and I am not a fan of a BMS. Sure the BMS will save the bank and potential faults from occurring, but adding that complexity to the ROOT of a tree is not something I want there.

there is nothing wrong with a bms it is just the last line of defense against a person screwing up the battery a safety feature.

Built my bank and including the bms was ah for ah cheaper than ff 's and with properly set solar controller ( you have to set them for all battery specifics)
I fully expect to never need batteries ever again in my 40 or so remaining years on my boat.

[chowdan]

Originally Posted by newhaul

there is nothing wrong with a bms it is just the last line of defense against a person screwing up the battery a safety feature.

Built my bank and including the bms was ah for ah cheaper than ff 's and with properly set solar controller ( you have to set them for all battery specifics)
I fully expect to never need batteries ever again in my 40 or so remaining years on my boat.

Yup nothing majorly wrong with it if it does what it's supposed to and doesnt have a bug or fault. I still am not a fan of the potential of the BMS failing causing the bank to go down. I rather eliminate that complexity.

Originally Posted by ranger42c

Seems like a decent lifespan. How well (or not) did you treat them over those 9 years? Do you feel like you got your money's worth?

-Chris

The previous owner installed them. He abused the **** out of them the last 4 years and when i received the boat, they were toast(year ago). I would have about 4 hours of run time with just my fridge kicking on for about 15minutes every hour. Realistically I'd say 7 years is feasible without abusing (running down to 10% or so). I still dont understand why they did that considering the engine has dual alternators (170 + 80)...but alas that is what it is.