Three years ago I replaced my second lot of Tudor batteries for Varta wet deepcycle batteries. Each of the Tudors did five years. The Vartas (2 x 180ah) are down in capacity to, I guess less than half .(ManBat of Chesterfield say they are about 60%) I have 150A alternators with an Adverc, 75w solar pannel and 100w Wind genny. Battery monitor by Link. I take my battery maintenance seriously and little has changed in life-style between the Tudor cruising (no longer available) and the Varta cruising. I have to admit that I always had problems trying to get the S.G 's with the Vartas up. The terminal volts would rise and reduce the charging current but the specific gravities got lower and lower. Another yacht in our club has had the same problem with his Vartas. The supplier cannot find any manufacturing fault, which is a shame as the guarantee still has 12 months to run. What did I do wrong? or am I expecting too much from an expensive Battery ?
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