Lithium battery questions

Re: Lithium battery questions

Reply #13 &#; April 29, , 11:54:51 pm

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Roger as you said there are temp restrictions on lithium's.  I looked closely at Northstar among others before I went back to our coaches OEM mk gel batteries 6 year ago.  My rational as a prepper in shaky town was to not replace the still operating absorption refer with a backup freezer section compressor if needed and a working  refer/freezer in the bay.

IF the prepper part of our calculations was not there and IF the refer was the later models with the thinner zinc coatings known to fail the decision might have been different. 

At the time the 2 Northstar li ion were $12k.  Plus the rest of the system. We have spent $23k at the Cummins dealer over the last 8 years in upgrades and repairs plus probably a large percentage of that  amount in electronic and electrical stuff and tires.

Well worth it.  Enjoyed  every mile and day. Plus god help is if we really need it.

We used to jet ski at 120F at the river and used to ski at well below zero.  Coach was equipped new to be able to do both extremes.

We were not willing to change the true four season ability of the as built by CM and Ray Fore yet.

No question the li-ion are better in most if not all uses.  Same as the residential refers. 

Remember for us here in locked in shaky town where if things happen you may have to really exist as well as possible.

Everything ties together for us.  House. Rv. Truck. Cars. Power supplies. Food. Solar at home.  Water sources. 

Most laugh or look away when I mention shaky town issues. 

That's for them.  We may be stupid but we are not crazy.  And have the knowledge and interest to do what we can to prepare.

So we have our fully stocked coach within walking distance of our home which is unheard of in south Orange County, ca. But we did it.  Bought our house 20 years ago with the idea that it had coach storage as we said "someday we will own a Foretravel"  well someday occurred.

Different set of facts from most of you I assume.  Plus most of you rarely remote camped in extreme weather.  Or knew CM or the family and sold hundreds of Foretravels  personally.

Thanks for reading this.  Every decision is made up of many parts.  At another day the parts might be different than 8 years ago.

Ps.  DW has a medium term medical issue with a non good ending so we may run off into the sunset for a while and get to live our dream from 35 years ago for a while.  We are ready to go as wanted.

Life is good. Enjoy every day.  Almost None of my 35 year ago Foretravel friends are still around.  Just a few. Hope to see them again.  Down the road......

"Riding and rejoicing"
Bob & Susan
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