Dedicated to all those who replace their own batteries . . . Batteries are heavy.

Those of you with larger battery banks, my hat's off to you.

If you have 6V golf cart types, get a battery strap they make the lift easier, not easy but still an big improvement. This is a good one.

The hook goes from inside out. These only work on batteries with the two  loops on top of the cells for the hooks.

Batteries can be very heavy (depending on the size and composition of them).  I only have four batteries in my rig, but they are 8D AGM batteries and weigh approximately 170 pounds each.  That is a lot of weight to lug around and I am not looking forward to pulling them out when it comes time to replace them.  Hopefully that will be a few more years down the road.  ?

  On 12/21/2019 at 12:21 PM, Chad Heiser said:

8D AGM batteries and weigh approximately 170 pounds each

I had two of those in my conversion van. They were mounted under the rear of the van so gravity would have helped get them out but I feel sorry for whoever has to put new ones in.

Linda Sand

My 100 amp hour 12V lithium batteries weigh 31 pounds each...

There's new battery technology on the horizon. It's being rushed to market with big bucks behind it so it should be commercially available within the next 3-4 years. It's solid state batteries. They are safer because the electrolyte is not liquid, but glass. This means they won't catch on fire, as there's nothing to bur. It can be charged much faster (no dendrites) and works over a wider temperature range (from -4 to 140 degrees F.) It is brought to you by the guy who invented the lithium ion battery and random access computer memory. It's so good that the inventor, John B. Goodenough, just won the 2019 nobel prize for its design. It's supposed to last twice as long as current lithiums, is cheaper and easier to manufacture, uses cheaper, readily available, earth-safe sodium rather than expensive, toxic lithium, and I've saved the best part for last. Their energy density is off the charts - between 2.2 and 5 times that of the best lifepo4 batteries currently available. You can skip about the first 4 minutes of the video, as this is where the good stuff starts.

Chip

  11 hours ago, sushidog said:

It's so good that the inventor, John B. Goodenough, just won the 2019 nobel prize for its design.

University of Chicago alum John B. Goodenough shares Nobel Prize for invention of lithium-ion battery

And from Chemistry World magazine:

A Battery Technology Worth It's Salt

And also from Berkeley Lab News

A Peek Into the Battery Technology Pipeline 

Edited 18 minutes ago by Kirk W