11 years is 5 years past there life span , I’m sure it’s dead . LA battery’s need to be charged every 6 weeks or so .

 

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I may charge it once a year or two.

I've been running it for 4 days round the clock charging batteries. Battery is still good with load tester. Now my goal is to get a little solar panel and figure out how to charge it. I doubt if I ever even checked the water in it.

 

Interesting this thread should pop up as I have been replacing several batteries lately. 2015 WM Deep cycle marine for my boat, 2016 Everstart in my pickup, 2007 red top Optmia which had been in my plane then transferred to my small tractor mower as I was getting leery of it. 2016 Everstart for my old Suburban.

So I have been gettin 7 years or so out of the W-M brand batteries that were produced back then. I hope the ones produced currently last as long.

 

That’s good life out of a car battery
Mine die at 5 years all the time.
I would think you would be in a cool area to get 7 years

 

That’s good life out of a car battery
Mine die at 5 years all the time.
I would think you would be in a cool area to get 7 years

Just stored in garage. 45 - 50 in winter 80's in Summer.

 

All my batteries with a 5 year warranty last me only 3 years. You must be living right..

 

I have many pieces of small electric start equipment that I have modified to take old car batteries. Generaly when I start getting a weak vehicle battery il change it out and the old one will go in the garage for smaller equipment. It's kind of like my own rotation to get every last bit of life out of a battery. I dont leave them on a charger either.

 

I typically get 8-9 years out of my batteries. The secret is to keep them 100% charged at all times:

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Yep, i jerk my agm off the TT when we are done using it. The battery lives on the battery tender.

 

I've used many batteries longer than 10 years, some running just fine in the auto, some in the garage to have power to run continuity tests on electrical systems and things like that. Any charge will make a bulb light, so - still running a marine starter battery I got in 2005 in my tractor. Running it from time to time, seems to be bringing it back the last couple years. I've had to jump it to get it running, but then it runs fine. This year it will crank the starter motor, but just not quite strong enough to kick get it to fire, but - the dead battery that was in that tractor 10 years ago came back to life and lasted a decade more, and my guess is I'll be running this 2005 battery in the tractor in 2015, but we'll see. If they stay charged and don't get let drained down, I don't think they are wearing down and from my experience it is usually neglect that kills them. The idea that the lifespan is 3-5 years, IMHO is just industry BS to get people to buy new ones they really don't need and it is a waste, but - they get to sell you a new battery. Yay, for them. I hope people who replace perfectly fine batteries don't need that money to feed their kids.

Oh, and I've had mechanics tell me I will absolutely need a new battery in the next year and all I did was clean the terminals really well. Same mechanic a year later, told me my battery was good as new; same battery 12 months later. Shows you that thinking for yourself a bit can be a good idea.

 

im hopeing to get 20 on my forklift batteries for my solar it lives with an anti sulfation device and for the first 8 years a 10% dod am curenttly taking them down to 20% dod looking to replace with a power wall of some sort.

 

My battery’s die in five years , all the time since the 70s 🤷‍♂️ If the car won’t turn over I call it dead .
All my trucks have 2 large battery’s
if a battery sits for a year with out a charge it dies ?
Solar battery last longer They are different

 

A battery that is just testing good with a load tester is missing most of its power capacity
Just because you can charge some small battery’s It doesn't mean your old battery is still good .
In warm weather a battery starts rapidly Sulfating below 75% charge .
I live off grid on battery power I have lots of experience

 

Lower temps shorten the life of batteries. Causes higher draw when cranking.
My garage kept batteries have a longer lifespan than vehicles parked outdoors.
Extremely high temps are also bad for batteries.

I have a trailer with a battery, it sits most of winter, outside. I try to top it off monthly.
I really should pull it, charge it, and store it in the garage during winter/ non-use periods.

 

Hmmmmm , it just seams like low temps kill battery , but that is not the case.
A cold battery Lose it capacity dependent on temp , a fully charged battery doesn’t sulfate
much in cold temps .
It is best to store battery’s cold and fully charged .

 

Over charging boils the water out of it.
Most batteries are rated in cycles, however there are new batteries that are putting an end to that.
Lithium-Ion were the state of the art, however if these new batteries become available soon.
I may invest in them for my home battery system.
For about 35 years or more I have been using 6 volt Deep cycle golf cart batteries, and they usually last about 5 years due to the fact they cycle every day, and that is the primary drawback with solar charging. but I may change that.
Ideally it seems, that if one had enough batteries to play with you could computerize the system so that one set of batteries works while another is being charged alternating from day to day.
On my first set up, because I was working for a boat shop and I had access to year old batteries the customers had replaced SOP for them, I had 18-12 volt deep cycle boat batteries. I kept a chalk board record of each battery and serviced them as required. when they finally died I brought them back to the shop and turned them in. My boss was good about this.
Regardless of brand, there are good ones and there are lemons, and there are unusual phenomena that occur no one can explain. I have known of events that local auto parts stores had a run on batteries in one area as though an EMP had occurred frying Diodes in alternators. this would draw a battery down overnight. At that time no one knew anything about EMPs but attributed it to something atmospheric.

 

I got nearly 15 years out of one from a Ford tractor dealer. Expensive to start with, more than usual at the time I remember. When it died, it was done, zip. Up until that point it still had plenty of ass to start a 5 cyl diesel.

Pretty sure the days of high quality flooded batts are long gone, unless your looking at Crown or Rolls...

 

Group 24F battery in my tractor is 12 years old. Has always performed until early this winter. Tractor sat for 2 months and it has gone downhill. Charge lasts 4-5 days days.
Pulled a battery from an extra truck out back to put into an old beater (beat around the farm) 4x4 and it's 14 years old. An oddball 31P series. Cranks right up.

I've had a number of batteries over the years that were 7-8-10 years old before failing.
I try and buy good rated batteries, but not the most expensive.

I've never used battery maintainers.

 

I've gotten any where's from 4 to 10 from OEM's . Mostly change them at 7 yrs.
Maintainers are crucial for allowing off season battery's to have a long life.

 

I replaced a 17 year old Walmart battery last fall.
It outlived one vehicle and failed after 10 years in a second one.
The second vehicle isn't driven winters and the battery was kept in the basement on a Battery Tender for half the year.
Doubt I'll ever see that kind of battery life again but that one was proof that it can happen.