Which battery-batteries can be used?
There are different type of batteries which can be used as a household battery feeding your interior consumers, and they all have their specific technology, structure, properties, lifetime, advantages, dis-advantages, capacity, and application preferences.
Lead-Acid, the most common battery technology
Advantage:
- Lowest in price
Dis-advantage:
- Heavy in weight
- Must be maintained by adding fluid
- Increased self-discharge requires constant recharging, otherwise sulfation !
- Strong loss of capacity at low temperatures
- Installation in a ventilated area, out of the interior
- Installation always upright
- Usable capacity 100%, but only in case of small discharge currents and with uncertain lifecycles.
AGM, Absorbent Glass Mat. AGM batteries are advanced lead-acid batteries.
Advantage:
- Better in cycling and inverter use
- Price in the middle
- Maintenance free
- Installation in the interior or on the side possible
- Usable capacity 50% of total capacity (50A for a 100Ah battery)
Dis-advantage:
- Heavy in weight
- Usable capacity 100%, but only in case of small discharge currents and with uncertain lifecycles.
GEL, are called “GEL” because they use silica (or sand) to turn the acid inside the battery into a liquid
Advantage:
- Better in cycling and inverter use
- Price in the middle, above AGM
- Maintenance free
- Installation in the interior or on the side possible
- Usable capacity 50% of total capacity (50A for a 100Ah battery)
Dis-advantage:
- Heavier than AGM
LFP, Lithium Ferro (iron) Phosphate, LiFePO4, offer lots of benefits compared to lead-acid batteries and other type of batteries.
Advantage:
- Highest standard in battery technology
- High Energy density and Low weight (1/3 of the weight and ½ space requirement vs a Lead Acid battery)
- Maintenance free
- Installation in the interior advisable and on the side possible
- Usable capacity up to 100% of total capacity (deep discharge possible to a minimum) Lifetime (charge/discharge cycles) approx. 3-4x longer than lead-acid battery
- No need to store fully charged
Dis-advantage:
- Price highest in comparison to standard lead-acid batteries
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