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I just use old school batteries for an old school car. Keep it charged and replace when necessary. There is a guy on a Cummins forum that runs his house on batteries. He claims to get 10 years out of all of his big batteries including the Cummins by running the maintenance cycle on them monthly which if I understand the basics is periodically essentially over charging them to de-sulfate them. He has an incentive to do the maintainance because of how expensive the batteries are.
A friend of mine has a 50' boat with 2 banks of 4 batteries. He also takes extra care with them but doesn't get 10 years.
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85SD 240K & stopped counting painted, putting bac together. 84SD 180,000. sold to a neighbor and member here but I forget his handle. The 84 is much improved from when I had it. 85TD beginning to repair to DD status. Lots of stuff to do.
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