Rolls surrette batteries

[russ_drinkwater]

The L16's are between $680 and $900 each over here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I paid $680 each for the four I am using now.
Will be getting four more probably next month when I sell some cattle at the auctions.
Then I am sitting on my hands waiting for some ex-government cells to come up.
3000 amp hours at 2 volts.
If I can get hold of 12 of them I will be set. Have to find a new battery area as they weigh in at 250kg's a piece!
And are 30cm x 30 cm x 100 cm in size.

[ralph day]

What kind of charge resources do you have Russ?  Gonna need lots to feed 3000amp hours.

Ralph

[tecnodave]

Russ

Ouch!!!!!!!     That shipping is a whopper!!!  I do get mine street wholesale, I'm not a dealer but one of my friends is so I pay street dealers price, markup is about 33-60% here on the average. I was quoted 356 USD for Trojan Solar L-16's in San Francisco. I bought the Interstates floor sweeper  L-16 batteries because they are produced in far greater volumes, they are the same batteries but labeled differently. 

The best deal I found on CALB CA 400a.h. here is 550 USD so shipping from China is way cheaper down there vs shipping here.  I think nobody is manufacturing LFP here or FLA in your area so the shippers reap great profits.

td

[mahendra]

yes that another reason why i have been leaning towards lithium as well.If you do some PI work as well you will find that eve nRoolls are now made in china.

[russ_drinkwater]

I have 20 x 220 watt hyundia 33.2 voc panels and 2 midnite clasic regs at the moment.
At this time I have half of them on the roof as I have extension to the roof planned depending
on cash availability. 4400 watts is a bit low, but I can not afford any more regs, lol. As our $ is so low against the US $ atm.
All my systems are 24 volt and I know I can run a lot more panels @ 48 volts, but that is not going to happen.
I have a source of good quality 2nd hand panels on the coast as a lot of people over are doing "upgrades" on their grid tie systems
and the panels are worth nothing atm.
Normally I buy them for $50 a panel and just take the whole lot. If you want to pick and choose they want $100 for a 200 watt panel.
As I plan for more grid tie here and also DC water pumping without batteries voltages etc are not a concern as I get at least 10 panels of each brand in the batches I buy.
I am a solar vampire, lol. I want as much of it as possible to make things cheaper to run on the cattle property.
More solar = less fuel used + less power bills + more feed for our stock + greater returns on our product
Freight on gear coming out of america is one thing that killed off importation of a lot of american made gear.
25-50% added to the cost puts most people out of the market unless it something that will make a lot of cash.
Anyone here live in Detroit?
Just curious if things are as bad there as what is reported?
To be fair I have bought a few lighter products such as wind turbine hubs and blades from Windy Nation when I playing with turbines.
Good products and I like Al the owner/father.

[Cniemand]

Mahendra: How true. Lithiums do not need those high charge considerations depending on bank size as would your typical Lead acid varieties. Did not think of that, but a perk certainly.

- Cloud

[russ_drinkwater]

Hi Ralph,
I have 4,400 watts of solar panels and 2 mid nite 150 regs.
Not enough amps I know working on the 10% rule for charging, but more than enough for anything I would ever pull out of the banks.
If more panels come up I will of course grab another 10-20 and more regs.