[Dave Willis]

All I want to know is what the average battery life is.

Mine: 75ah leisure battery - 9 months
          80ah leisure battery - 10 months
           110ah car battery - 1 year but seems to be showing signs of tiredness.

My conclusion is that leisure batteries are no better than the far cheaper car batteries for our needs.
What about you?

[Lee GLS]

hi dave, are you having a bad week, your posts seem to keep being on the negative side dont worry its friday weekend tomorrow, have a few beers, things may be better on monday

[TC1]

Spoke to another wc today, he uses a "gel" battery from american golf store. He said it only needs charging once a week and has had his ages! I use a 110 ah leisure and charge it once maybe twice a week and have had it 8 months and its lasting ok.

[roundbuilder]

Spoke to another wc today, he uses a "gel" battery from american golf store. He said it only needs charging once a week and has had his ages! I use a 110 ah leisure and charge it once maybe twice a week and have had it 8 months and its lasting ok.

thats what i use had mine over a yea with no robs i charge it twice a week.

[Dave Willis]

hi dave, are you having a bad week, your posts seem to keep being on the negative side dont worry its friday weekend tomorrow, have a few beers, things may be better on monday

No, quite positive, in fact I'm on a charge at the moment.

[john tomkins]

85ah leisure battery bought Oct 2006, replaced within 2 year warranty coz it wouldn't hold charge, still going strong now.
85ah leisure battery bought Nov 2008, still going strong.

All I do is put one on charge, use the other, end of the day swap them over and use again. Always got one charging and never use any one more than 1 day.
Seems to work for me.

[Dave Willis]

Reading about leisure batteries on Halfords site and it seems they are designed for around 300 charging cycles which equates to about a year I suppose if you charge them every night. Might explain why a simple car battery works fairly well on a split relay - probably more or less charged all day?

[TC1]

Reading about leisure batteries on Halfords site and it seems they are designed for around 300 charging cycles which equates to about a year I suppose if you charge them every night. Might explain why a simple car battery works fairly well on a split relay - probably more or less charged all day?

If you buy your batteries from Halfords, I'd check the price of them at Wilco's! I got mine from Wilco's and paid 1/2 what Halfords wanted for the same battery.

[dmlservices]

hi dave
i've got 2 yuassu 75 ah batterys, i rotate them, so one or the other is always on charge , i use a halfords intelligent battery charger,i change battery daily , so they dont get to drained, as this will shorten battery life , dont use a split charger as a lot of my work is close together, so battery would not get chance to charge properly, work 7-8 hrs a day, my batterys are 2 years old .

daz

[Dave Willis]

Two batteries = half the amount of work of my one. Good idea I suppose. My last one that went kaput was perfect according to the supplier I was having warranty issues with - strange that  :
my present battery seems ok but the varistream seems to be up and down all over the place som I'm thinking the voltage is dropping pretty quick. Can't sweem to get an even flow throughout the day. Just put a new battery on (no, not Halfords) so will see how things go next week.