albernifisher
Well-Known Member
Shopping around for batteries, need a starting and a deep cycle. Heard good things about the Costco brand ones, anyone have any opinions? group 24 or 27? Gel,lead or agm???
LOL....... What a joke. May as well buy from Canadian TireTwo words.. Battery Warehouse.... next to Bakers Supply.. worth checking out , great service & reasonable prices.
fish Assassin put down your chisel, it is worth spending 20-30 more on a battery to buy Canadian and in town service and free replacement
Shopping around for batteries, need a starting and a deep cycle. Heard good things about the Costco brand ones, anyone have any opinions? group 24 or 27? Gel,lead or agm???
Interstate from Harbour Chandler. Reasonable pricing (no you don't have to be rich lol) and great warranty. If you have a problem with one take it back and they will deal with it. I have never had a problem with one .
I don't know what the costco batteries cost but if we're talking 20-30 dollars difference over let's say a 5 year investment......its worth it IMHO.
I bought from Battery Direct in Burnaby for my boat. They weren't cheap that's for sure and they didn't last.I get my marine batteries from battery direct in Victoria...I pay about 140.00 for a good starting battery..I have had a lot of experience designing outdoor solar products that require similar batteries. We did experiment with on the discharging of batteries... As you know up here we have the worst solar conditions in winter, and we had to be sure the batteries would survive on worst case... Many of these enclosures were in isolated marine areas... From testing the cheaper ones you can see a huge difference. Where you see it is the expensive batteries are harder to kill...Each of the cell has a threshold voltage ..You go down past that you kill it... So the big I saw is it seemed that more expensive types could be recharged with minimal damage..But I believe it was can tire and some of kirkland brand we tested and it would not bounce back.
By far the best I have tested and put through the ringer Enerysis are the best.. The company that supplied our batteries at the time were battery direct so that's why I go there... Plus you get the free advice...
My last ones on my double eagle last 7 years before I replaced them before I sold it... I also charged them periodically during winter months..
I will see if I can find my receipt it was damn good battery...
So truthfully I think both batteries are good..But if you are not going to do maintenance I.E. charge them periodically than get expensive/good quality ones... Again this is not BS its just what I seen testing these things...
Next battery question... do I run my main and kicker on the starting and use a ACR to keep the deep cycle charged?