Does anyone know where to purchase good batteries at a good price in Santo Domingo? Thanks- need 4.
Eddyx said:I recently bought this model:
http://www.powbat.com/acro-file/slf-12205.pdf.
You can get this in DIGITAL TV C/ Proyecto No. 4 Urb Constelaci?n. Phone 809-563-6446. To get this address you should go by the Los Pr?ceres Ave. (the continuation of Luper?n Ave.)
Agreed. They do sound good, but for the price it would be nice to have more feed back.Criss Colon said:They "sound" just about "To Good To Be True" for "Inversor" use!
They are commonly used in "Boats",motorcycles,"Ski-Doos" aand "things" that don't just stay on the "straight & Narrow" like cars usually do! Maybe they are used in "Aircraft" which also turn "up-side-down" from time to time.
Anyway,Even if the initial cost is double,or even triple ,what a "Normal" deep cycle batery used in an inverter system in the DR.costs,if it is
Maintenence Free",and last "up to 10 years" it would be fantastic!!!
What I would need to be 100% sure of before I buy 4 or 8 of the "Gel Filled" batteries is,Where's the "PROOF" that they will last 10 years??? "Up To",can mean "One Year","Five Years",or "Ten Years"!!!!!:bandit:
I am back to the "NET" to see what more I can find.I wwould love to hear much more about these batteries,and they use with invertors!
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SKY said:Trace, the inverter company does not make batteries. An electrician friend of mine who has worked in the D.R. for ten years told me he once checked with the parent company of Trace about some ?Trace? batteries. He was told they were not from the Trace company,as they don?t sell batteries, only inverters. Someone is using the name.
Trojan makes the best batteries according to my friend. You can get them in Pricemart for about $75.
Criss Colon said:They "sound" just about "To Good To Be True" for "Inversor" use!
They are commonly used in "Boats",motorcycles,"Ski-Doos" aand "things" that don't just stay on the "straight & Narrow" like cars usually do! Maybe they are used in "Aircraft" which also turn "up-side-down" from time to time.
Anyway,Even if the initial cost is double,or even triple ,what a "Normal" deep cycle batery used in an inverter system in the DR.costs,if it is
Maintenence Free",and last "up to 10 years" it would be fantastic!!!
What I would need to be 100% sure of before I buy 4 or 8 of the "Gel Filled" batteries is,Where's the "PROOF" that they will last 10 years??? "Up To",can mean "One Year","Five Years",or "Ten Years"!!!!!:bandit:
I am back to the "NET" to see what more I can find.I wwould love to hear much more about these batteries,and they use with invertors!
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To be sure I'm talking about about a cooler climate, but if they are properly ventilated no problem. Where did you have them, let me guess jammed under your cockpit hatch, with no ventilation, where the temp is way up there. I'f that's the case, go with lead cells however for the original poster research gellcells and always buy a product with a good rep.Chris said:In our experience, the gel cell batteries are perhaps overrated. We used some on our sail boat and discovered that they really do not stand up to tropical conditions. They were 'se fue' in about six months on the boat. Maybe things have changed, but I will not easily buy these again. On a boat, you make all your own power with generator, inverters and so on, so, the batteries are all important - it is just a little more complicated than doing it on land here in the DR. We reverted to normal lead acid flooded batteries (my ecological soul cringes - but we have to have power). They are by far the best value for money. We have a set of 12 that need another EDTA treatment around now. These are almost 5 years old. With regular EDTA treatments, they are lasting us very well.
I have to add something, in the cooler climates and marine environment I believe the gel cells are excellent.
gary short said:Also Chris I'm basing my opinion on years of experiance as both an industrial and marine electrician. I refuse to believe that you managed to pooch a gellcell in 6 months regardless of climate. Yachts I have worked on travel between the tropics and the pacific northwest yearly. Also the original poster's power supply comes off the grid your's comes from a generator inorder to recharge the batteries. How is it that you're implying it's more complicated? O.K. you've got a sailboat great, I'm willing to bet you shorted something out either from your own wiring or some unqualified " electrician". I believe the original poster needed a qualified opinion, yours is not. I've never suffered fools lightly.