Not for everyone.
For lack of anything better to write about, I figured I would take this time to explain my new battery situation better. So if you have no interest in solar panels, batteries, and all the other gadgets that you need to boondock, you can stop reading right here, because it won't get any more interesting than this.
When I started having battery trouble a couple of months ago, I never did figure out what the problem was, but buying a new battery fixed it. So I ended up with a brand-new 320-amp lithium iron battery and four somewhat questionable 100-amp BattleBorn lithium iron batteries.
The 320-amp Doodoo battery has been great. I would buy another one in a heartbeat if I needed to. And I'm feeling increasingly confident about the BattleBorn batteries. The BattleBorn Batteries have sat idle, neither charging nor discharging, for a couple of weeks. I took a voltage reading on the batteries when I unhooked them and another reading just a few days ago. In all of those readings, the four BattleBorn batteries had not lost a single tenth of a volt. So instead of paying to recycle them, I hooked them up as a second battery bank, and even though they're about 10 years old, I'm continuing to use them until they start giving me problems.
I installed a switch that lets me use battery bank number one, which is my beloved 320 amp Doodoo battery, battery bank number two, my old BattleBorn batteries, wired up in parallel, use both banks together, or turn both banks off. This gives me a lot of flexibility with the battery banks, which gives me some confidence in using the old BattleBorn batteries, since if they give me any trouble, I can just turn them off.
This is dragging on too long, even for me to pay attention to, so I will finish up this tale of the best of times and the worst of times tomorrow.
Theboondork
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