A response to Larry's comment.
Yeah, Larry, life is all about vicissitudes and how we handle them, but when you're a boondocker AND a procrastinator, you open yourself up to more vicissitudes than you can shake a stick at.
As I was writing my blog post this morning, I read your comment and decided to cunningly morph my response into my blog post for the day, killing two birds with one stone, as it were.
I dug out an old inverter that I once used, but was too small for my current lifestyle, hooked it up, and it showed the same problem that my current inverter has, which is yet another fickle finger of fate pointing to my costly BattleBorn battery bank as my problem.
So I spent a good part of last night looking up lithium iron batteries on the Internet, and was somewhat amazed at how many there are now and how far prices have fallen… Except for the BattleBorn batteries, which are still outrageously expensive.
As I frequently mention in my blog, time is flying by for me, so I figured I would check how it’s flying by for these old BattleBorn batteries I bought a while back, since I haven't given them much thought until now. Fortunately, my daily blog posts give me very accurate, relatively easy-to-find information about most things in my life, including when I bought these very expensive lithium-iron batteries that at the time were relatively new to RVers.
Scrolling through my past blogs, I quickly found out I bought these BattleBorn batteries in the summer of 2017, which then begs the question, how long are they supposed to last?
There's actually no clear timeframe on how long these lithium iron batteries will give decent service, and I can remember I called BattleBorn and asked them that question, I explained that I'm a fulltimer, so I live in my RV and use batteries every day, and I'm also a boondocker that seldom plugs in and mostly depends on my batteries for electricity, they replied that, depending on how I use them, and how deeply they get discharged every day, they should last between eight and thirteen years. And at the moment, that sounded like a very long time …Especially considering the meager life expectancy of the various lead-acid and AGM batteries I had used in the past.
But now here I am, still alive and kicking, looking at 10-year-old batteries that a case could be made for them having served with honor and distinction, and lasted just about as long as they were expected to, which doesn't solve my problems, but it does appear that I got all the power I paid for.
So now I will dive headlong into the Internet, searching for bits and pieces of information on the best and reasonably priced lithium-iron batteries for RVs. Fortunately, they are nowhere near the price I paid for my currently deceased batteries, and I've got high hopes that I can yet again outlive another battery bank.
So Larry, if you have any ideas, go ahead and hit me with them, because, if I remember correctly, you've got a lot of new experience with lithium iron batteries, and my experience is out of date and on the level of rubbing two sticks together.
Theboondork
Big Horn sheep grazing at Pete’s.
Nighttime flowers in the yard.
Sand Dunes National Monument, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountain range.