is that buying a lead acid battery is really a waste of money if you want to get the most energy possible out of the batteries yes the lithium may seem like an expensive upfront cost but especially if you compare it to thinking about an expensive agm battery there's no sense in wasting your money on those batteries lead acid batteries are so susceptible to environmental conditions to temperatures to charging profiles to discharging profiles that they're just not reliable to be used in a power application these were laboratory control conditions where we made sure to meet all of the manufacturer specifications for each of the batteries and this frequently doesn't happen in real world environments so the batteries are going to be damaged or their life cycle is going to be limited even faster in a real world scenario i was truthfully surprised to see that lead acid batteries did not meet their ratings and i think from this data i can conclusively say that there is no situation in which a lead acid battery would outperform an equivalent lithium-ion battery in a power storage application and i truthfully can't recommend any lead acid battery over lithium-ion either for the sake of use or even cost now you may ask if there's any situation in which a lead acid battery should be used and there is one that i can think of lead acid batteries are great at providing very high discharge currents for very short periods of time and as long as they are recharged through their absorption cycle very quickly they have pretty good life cycles an application that works like this is a starting battery in a car all you need is a very high current to turn that engine over and then they are immediately recharged don't rely on the starting battery in the vehicle however to provide auxiliary power for any significant loads if you need additional loads in the vehicle install a separate lithium-ion battery bank to provide that house power one last thing to consider with lithium ion batteries you can get away with a lot less the two battleborns that we compared in all these tests to the four lead acid batteries they truthfully perform very comparably so we can really consider half the lithium and look at the cost in that regards instead of having four lithium ion batteries to four lead acid batteries now as i mentioned earlier if you're interested in a chance to win a set of the new battleborn lithium-ion heated batteries you're gonna have to head over to our website at URL_TOKEN backslash giveaway and enter your information before january NUMBER_TOKENth for your chance to win this is an incredible setup that's going to provide lots of power in all temperature conditions and we're not just giving away two batteries it's always important to have a means to figure out what capacity those batteries have so we are going to include a victron shunt with the batteries that you can install to figure out exactly how much capacity they have in them i'm super excited about this giveaway there are multiple different ways that you can earn entries and i hope to see you all over on the website as always thank you so much for joining us if you liked this video give us a thumbs up and hit that subscribe button also head over to URL_TOKEN website to get access to all this data learn more about this experiment and lots of other solar battery and rv
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