Hi Pat,
The AGM's in my boat just pasted the 3 year mark a couple of months ago and they seem fine. The boat is used year round and pretty regularly. Most of my use is out of a slip and when back at the slip I plug in to shore power.
I had flooded LA batteries on a previous electric sailboat (36 volt trolling motor) they worked fine for the two years I had the set up but I did have to keep an eye on the water level.
I'm pleased with the AGM's so far.
Mark
Santa Cruz
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "greenpjs04" <greenpjs@...> wrote:
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> Eric,
> You are hoping your Lithiums will last 10 years and you know from experience that deep cycle FLA's lasted 3 years. (I understand your point that careful management would have extended that, but I don't want my batteries to be the top thing on my mind). Do you have any feel for where AGM fits between the other two? Mine are still going strong after one year (as expected). I always recharge them after use and usually only use 20% to 40% of the rated capacity during any one outing. I hope they last a long time, but how many years is that likely to be? 5? Maybe I will get Lithiums when the time comes. Weight is not important in my case. (Except when carrying the batteries from the dock to my garage at the end of the season ;-)
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> Pat
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> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <ewdysar@> wrote:
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> > Hi Pat,
> >
> > I agree. I know that my Lithium cells will die of old age before I get close to 1000 cycles. I'm hoping that they last 10 years. Considering that I typically had to replace my deep cycle batteries every 3 years, I'm ok with the tradeoff. I know that I killed my old house batteries through non-use, sulfation would reduce their capacity too much. I know that it was my fault, and that I could have gotten more life from them if I had been more diligent in my charging regimen when I wasn't using my boat, but it just didn't happen. One advantage to LiFePO4 is a very low self-discharge. After storing my cells unattended for a year while my boat was being worked on, they were still above 80% charged. Try that with lead acid batteries (actually don't, because it's not good for the batteries).
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> > That's why for boats, I never try to factor in the rated cycle life into my justifications. I've never had a boat battery die from too many cycles.
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> > On the other hand, for EVs that do deep daily discharges, cycle life is more applicable. You can actually run batteries through their entire cycle life. That's where Trojan T-105s ended up being a better deal than cheaper deep cycle alternatives. I experienced this personally when I was converting cars to electric back in the early 1990's.
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> > Fair winds,
> > Eric
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> > --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "greenpjs04" <greenpjs@> wrote:
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> > > Both Eric and Charlie have provided valid useful numbers. However, other data must be considered as well. I use my boat about once per week during the roughly 25 week season. So, even at 2000 cycles for the LFP batteries, I will be 140 years old when the batteries have used up their cycles. Does anyone know a typical life for these battery chemistries in years? Do they really last for their rated cycles even if it takes 80 years to do that many cycles?
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> > > I am currently using AGM, so I will only be 92 when 800 cycles are complete. (For those not good at math, I am currently 60.)
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> > > Pat
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