$58 with those 20% off coupons you see everywhere. Half the weight and size of the Optima Bluetop. I'm tempted to get another one because I can fit 2 of these in my battery box. Happy this has enough reserve capacity to run my space cooler all night.
Ya I would think 2 if you were replacing that one optima and the cost is not so bad also I know they don't do many coupons these days but right now they are on sale for $60 so $120 for 70Ah of SLA isn't bad
If you want your battery to last don't let it drop below 50% which is 12.2v if you let it drop to the inverter's low voltage cut off to often it will kill it faster. The low voltage cut off is made to save your inverter and devices not the battery.
This battery is awesome my battery in my 84 Shasta RV died while we were camping and we put the thunder bolt battery from our 100watt solar panel in our dune buggy first and it fires it right up then we put on in our Shasta RV wotha 350 motor and it started it right up o recommend this battery to everyone
Great video, could you do a video on how you set up your harbor freight solar panels inside your rig and where are you mounted everything. Thanks again for the video
@@BobbyFigliola Get all the Electricity you can afford. I need 3 of these batteries. I need a dedicated one for running my Freezer and another one for my other electronics. This single one has been fine for just keeping cool in my van when I'm sleeping. On a budget I say more batteries are better then more solar panels because solar doesn't charge when it's gloomy or raining. Reserve capacity is better. I'm on my second van build.
@@JohnDrivesAnything actually not ready for the $$$ of lithium... want sealed gel 200 amp. that should do it eh? basics. fridge , heater, basic light power got a GEN so ... solar is the main and GEN gfor non sunny days. on SS ya understand...yeaaah
@@BobbyFigliola 200 is a amp is agreat amount. That's around 2400 watt hours. HFT battery is about 420. I think around 800 is a good amount to have. More the better.
I love that they're cheap and easily scalable. If you get 10 in parallel you can run quite a bit. Keep them above 12.1-12.2 volts if you want them to last. I've had mine over 4 years now.
Man I love these batts I got 1 and it performed much better then my dura last 10 year from Walmart the thing just fights to give power the Walmart batt died after running 1200 watt inverter for 11 hrs and would not go back on without recharge and the HF batt lasted 18 hrs then quit yet just letting it rest 1 or 2 min it gave output again went a total of 20 hrs without recharge.... Well worth the 50or60 dollars paid of course Y'ALL SHOULD KNOW I HAVE THE HARBOR FREIGHT MEMBERSHIP AND IN FACT I HAVE ABOUT 5 MEMBERSHIPS THEY DONT LIMIT YOU WELL I PUT I EVERY FAMILY MEMBERS NAME... SO IF YOU DO THIS PLEASE SAY TO THEY ARE GIFTS FOR FAMILY AS TO NOT RUIN THIS GREAT THING THAT ALLOWED YET IT CERTAINLY FEELS WRONG.... SAFE TOOLING YALL
@@JohnDrivesAnything I bought mine to run my astrophotography equipment for the 2017 eclipse while primitive camping. ruclips.net/video/aQ6KSfTDHqE/видео.html Since then I've charged all my electronics and 2 electric bicycles (about 1200 miles traveled on solar power). Knowing what I know now, I would have set the charge controller to cut off at around 12 volts instead of the default of (I think) 10.8. I haven't decided if I'm going to replace them or not- it doesn't really make sense financially but I miss charging the bikes using solar power.
A 35Ah AGM battery has 17Ah of use. If your battery falls below 12.2v you're damaging it and shortening the life. Only lithium batteries can be drained up to 90% without damage utilizing the Ah rating.
@@troyyarbrough I'd have to find the right combination of plugs to do that... I'm about to receive a new solar generator battery that has 1.5kwh capacity- mostly for camping but it will be able to charge both our bikes with room to spare. *edit- Lifepo4 sogen
I was planning on getting one of these AGM batteries until I read about them here on the tube. You can't drain them all the way down like a lithium I saw. I think it was 50%.
Wow that battery is holding a good charge to run that portable camping A/C unit. I say if the battery last at least 2 years you have gotten your money's worth on it even if you didn't have the 20% off coupon sir. Being cool in your camper van down by the desert
@@josephd27 If I get another battery and a bigger inverter then I'll be aIble to run a Microwave oven. I might be able to now. I should try lol If I had this I can run one for sure www.harborfreight.com/2000-watt-continuous4000-watt-peak-modified-sine-wave-power-inverter-63429.html
Thinking of getting this battery for my shed solar setup. 100w panel HQST, with a 30 amp 12V/24V PWM solar charge controller. Just to power an indoor LED shop light, and an outdoor motion sensor light. Will be in Cold and Hot temps (new england). Haven't settled on an inverter yet. Think this battery will be up to the task?
Yeah I need to run another one so I can run my space coolers and 12 Volt Freezer over night. I sleep in my van 1 or 2 nights a week when I road trip. It'll run my space coolers or freezer over night but I can't have both.
@@JohnDrivesAnything looks like a good setup. I'm thinkin about getting the 100 watt solar panel kit they sell and wiring it up to a pair of deep cycle marine batteries that are about 105ah each to help get me off the grid( to some extent). I'd just need lights and a few charging ports.
@@ciphercode2298 105 AH is a lot of Reserve power. This HarborFreight Battery is 35 AH which is around 400 WH. When you look at those Trendy Portable Solar Power Station Generators a 700 WH station runs $500 and above. Thats a good amount of power. Your 105 AH Battery is 1000+ WH If your just running lights and a Electric fan maybe a small TV and keeping your Electronics charged even without receiving a charge lets say on a rainy day that's a few days of power. More Electricity the better. 100 watt panel will keep that topped off all the time if you run low draw accessories.
@@ciphercode2298 I have 2 1 already failed on me and when 1 part fails it's a paper weight. With Solar you have The Panel, Charge Controller and battery, So you if 1 thing fails out of the system you can replace the failed part. I don't recommend stations at all. Maybe a Cheaper lower capacity one just for Backup. I have a 155 WH Westinghouse. It's cool having a Battery and plugs all in one. That is just good enough to run my space cooler overnight. That 155 WH of capacity was $129 vs this battery with 400 WH for $80 no more HFT coupons
It's a Windy Nation 100 Watt Kit I got off of Ebay 7 years ago. They're still around but include a better charge controller now. The Brands is PWM they still include PWMs but more modern
I’m using four of these batteries inline and I’m having problems with drawing and draining power. I’m thinking I don’t have enough panels? I’m I’m the set of the 100 watt panels. Four panels 25 watts each
@@davidray5791 Each HFT Battery is 420 Watt Hours. I'm guessing a 6000 BTU AC is running 600 watts per hour so Is your run time with the AC around 2-3 hours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything now the batteries only charge up to about 12.8 during the day and drops to around 12.4 at night with absolutely no load. Nothing plugged into the inverter for about 3 days now and I still can’t get more than 12.9 volts
My entire battery bank is made up of these batteries. Currently I have 15 of these batteries connected in parallel, which is connected to 8 harbor freight 100 watt solar panels, with a 40 amp solar controller made by grape solar i bought from home depot. I could not be happier with this set up. My batteries are fully charged by noontime everyday even when it's cloudy outside. I have a 4000 watt pure sign wave inverter connected to the battery bank and I never EVER have to tweak or otherwise do anything to maintain the system. I've had this system for a little over 2 years now and never have to worry about not having enough power for ait conditioner, vacuum cleaner, microwave, power washer...etc.. I get up each day to only having used 8% out of 100% of storage. During the day I use whatever I want... worry free.. these batteries are amazing.
@@JohnDrivesAnything Well it took awhile ...I didn't just go out and buy everything at once. I bought 1 hundred watt panel at a time and I bought 3 batteries to add to my bank every 2 months untilIgotit where I am now .... It takes a little investment but once you have it ... it saves money... I don't even pay a bill anymore.
@@trevorforrester3142 It's called a mightykool. I would love to run a real home air comditioner but how many batteries do you think I would need to run it overnight about 10? 5000 BTU is about 500 watts per hour, these are 420 AMPS so 10 would run about 8 hours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything As I said above..... I have 15 of those harbor freight batteries like you reviewed in this episode, but on reality I would imagine 10 batteries would get you through the night. As it stands for me right now, I can use my AC through the night and still have 80% battery storage left over in the morning. You never should let a lead acid battery or batteries go below 50% which translates to 12.2 volts. You will drastically shorten the life of the batteries or battery by doing so. I wanted enough batteries that it would be like I was connected to the power grid... like I didn't ever have to worry.
Really impressed with it for $58. The Optima had double the reserve but cost 4 times more. If I bought another one of these I'd match the Optima for half the price. I'm tempted to especially If I get a Microwave
Extreme hot and cold messes with battery run time. When it's really hot though the suns up and the solar is constantly feeding my battery a charge. At night this has enough capacity to keep my space cooler running all night. Thats what my battery is for. Run my space cooler in my van because I sleep in it a lot.
Mighty Kool K2 here's a review I did on it. I sleep in my van a lot and without this it would be impossible to sleep in it in the summer ruclips.net/video/iC3MAsSdRVM/видео.html
@@adventureant2550 Here's a video I made explaining the technical aspect of capacity. I recommend a bigger battery or running 2 of these. My Optima Blue Top had almost double the storage of this battery and lasted 6 years before it degraded. This is degrading after a year because I run everything through this and let it get low all the time. Your battery will last longer if you don't constantly run it at under 11.5 volts ruclips.net/video/e2ykCdKjsqI/видео.html
I was looking at these and almost bought some. But. I ran into a guy that sells NEW 12 volt batteries th8are one year old. No labels so I don't know what kind. ( I think that they are Walmart? But 12 volt 750 CCA are $60 deep cycle $75 and 6 volt are $60. He says the deep cycle are 100aH. and the 6 volt are 232aH. I believe him Hes been doing it for years. I think he has a hook up with a couple local Walmarts?
@@kimmisoo777 If you want to run a Fridge I would go with an Optima Blue Top if you want to run a Fridge. This battery is ok for under 100 watt drawing accessories.
Skip the inverter and run your lights of the charge controller directly , of course they have to be 12v(24v) same as your charge controller power output. Iam running 5 l.e.d 12v lights on 2 parallel 12v output and it work great.
For anybody watching this video, The Harbor Freight battery are straight up garbage. That guy must have gotten lucky and got a good battery. I've gotten three from Harbor Freight. One of them was crap right out of the box, the other two wouldn't even hold a charge. Nor even take a charge. They are straight up garbage
Man that sucks their return policy is great at least. I went through 2 of thier $100 generators then gave up but they were cool with returns each time. I want to get another one of these hopefully I get another good one
Did you check the voltage and manufacture date before leaving the store? If the battery isn't at least 12.75v or better and isn't more then three months old sitting in inventory there should not be an issue. I made sure mine was less then a month old and checked the voltage before I left the store. I do the same on all batteries.
Battery setup is an abomination with just the inverter clamps holding the wire on. No fuse, the list goes on. Truly an example of hillbilly or meth head engineering.
This is total BS. You can just do simple calculations to see that a 7A load (84 watts) cannot run more than 5 hours (since it is a 35Ah rated battery), and normally for this type of battery, you shouldn't run it below about half of its rating, so 2.5 hours. Downvoted for BS.
@@JohnDrivesAnything There is no way it can run an 84+ watt continuous load (which is 7+ amps at 12V) for 8 hours. It is not rated for that. Maybe it cycled off when you weren't watching it.
Haha! Funny, I just now found this video and watched it, after all the months since you posted it, and went to say something about the capacity issue, and saw that the ONLY other post addressing this as well was just a day ago! Anyway, David is right - even a high-end battery with accurate ratings should have run dead flat at 5 hours with that load... another possible issue may be more along the lines of your wattmeter (built into the inverter, right?) may not be accurate. Perhaps it isn't properly accounting for power factor of the load, or maybe it just isn't made to be accurate for small loads that aren't close to the full-power limit of the inverter. I'd like to see an ammeter reading of the DC amps coming off the battery to the inverter. It may actually only be drawing 2 or 3 amps (30-ish watts at most) when that cooler is reading the "80" watts on the inverter. Either that, or yes it really is cycling somehow or drawing much lower power most of the time when you haven't caught it. Anyhow, kudos for trying with this demonstration - but something funky is definitely going on to goof up your measurements, somehow! Oh, yes... and if you do get around to measuring the current (or even if you don't), PLEASE get a fuse in there somewhere close to the battery, too! You'd have to run that swamp cooler a LONG time to cool off from an electrical fire! :-)
$58 with those 20% off coupons you see everywhere. Half the weight and size of the Optima Bluetop. I'm tempted to get another one because I can fit 2 of these in my battery box. Happy this has enough reserve capacity to run my space cooler all night.
Where do I find those coupons at??
@@jorgepuga2303 HFT stopped doing coupons this year
Ya I would think 2 if you were replacing that one optima and the cost is not so bad also I know they don't do many coupons these days but right now they are on sale for $60 so $120 for 70Ah of SLA isn't bad
@@james10739 YEah sucks they don't do many coupons these days. Use to be in car magazines all the time.
I have an ap that has all the coupons but they use to send out flyers like once a month too
If you want your battery to last don't let it drop below 50% which is 12.2v if you let it drop to the inverter's low voltage cut off to often it will kill it faster. The low voltage cut off is made to save your inverter and devices not the battery.
Appreciate the input
You are absolutely correct. He needs to buy a second battery. Connect the 2 batteries in parallel. NEVER drop below 50%
@@trevorforrester3142 this battery can go below 50%. It's not a "normal" battery.
It's deep cycle dead is 10.5. It's meant to be ran low and xan charge as hi as 14.4 I believe.
This battery is awesome my battery in my 84 Shasta RV died while we were camping and we put the thunder bolt battery from our 100watt solar panel in our dune buggy first and it fires it right up then we put on in our Shasta RV wotha 350 motor and it started it right up o recommend this battery to everyone
Great video, could you do a video on how you set up your harbor freight solar panels inside your rig and where are you mounted everything. Thanks again for the video
Here's a video on how I mounted my solar ruclips.net/video/3mNFQAzendA/видео.html
VERY COOL...in the field testing not just "on the bench" testing.. thanks for the video....
I use all this stuff in my camper van build. Gotta make sure I can run my space cooler when I sleep in my van on the road.
@@JohnDrivesAnything ...fixin to install in a camper build myself...thanks for the info
@@BobbyFigliola Get all the Electricity you can afford. I need 3 of these batteries. I need a dedicated one for running my Freezer and another one for my other electronics. This single one has been fine for just keeping cool in my van when I'm sleeping. On a budget I say more batteries are better then more solar panels because solar doesn't charge when it's gloomy or raining. Reserve capacity is better. I'm on my second van build.
@@JohnDrivesAnything actually not ready for the $$$ of lithium... want sealed gel 200 amp. that should do it eh? basics. fridge , heater, basic light power got a GEN so ... solar is the main and GEN gfor non sunny days. on SS ya understand...yeaaah
@@BobbyFigliola 200 is a amp is agreat amount. That's around 2400 watt hours. HFT battery is about 420. I think around 800 is a good amount to have. More the better.
I love that they're cheap and easily scalable. If you get 10 in parallel you can run quite a bit. Keep them above 12.1-12.2 volts if you want them to last. I've had mine over 4 years now.
Im still running the same single battery and I run it low all the time and it's stll able to run my space cooler over night.
Nice presentation - For your laptop - you should get a 12V DC adapter. This will save you at least 20% from not needing to convert from AC to DC.
Man I love these batts I got 1 and it performed much better then my dura last 10 year from Walmart the thing just fights to give power the Walmart batt died after running 1200 watt inverter for 11 hrs and would not go back on without recharge and the HF batt lasted 18 hrs then quit yet just letting it rest 1 or 2 min it gave output again went a total of 20 hrs without recharge.... Well worth the 50or60 dollars paid of course Y'ALL SHOULD KNOW I HAVE THE HARBOR FREIGHT MEMBERSHIP AND IN FACT I HAVE ABOUT 5 MEMBERSHIPS THEY DONT LIMIT YOU WELL I PUT I EVERY FAMILY MEMBERS NAME... SO IF YOU DO THIS PLEASE SAY TO THEY ARE GIFTS FOR FAMILY AS TO NOT RUIN THIS GREAT THING THAT ALLOWED YET IT CERTAINLY FEELS WRONG.... SAFE TOOLING YALL
I had 2 of these in parallel and they lasted just over 2 years. I suggest you keep the voltage above 11.5 or so. I think I ran mine too low too often
Appreciate the advice. 2 years still isn't too bad for how cheap these are. What did you run on yours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything I bought mine to run my astrophotography equipment for the 2017 eclipse while primitive camping. ruclips.net/video/aQ6KSfTDHqE/видео.html Since then I've charged all my electronics and 2 electric bicycles (about 1200 miles traveled on solar power). Knowing what I know now, I would have set the charge controller to cut off at around 12 volts instead of the default of (I think) 10.8. I haven't decided if I'm going to replace them or not- it doesn't really make sense financially but I miss charging the bikes using solar power.
A 35Ah AGM battery has 17Ah of use. If your battery falls below 12.2v you're damaging it and shortening the life. Only lithium batteries can be drained up to 90% without damage utilizing the Ah rating.
@@troyyarbrough I'd have to find the right combination of plugs to do that... I'm about to receive a new solar generator battery that has 1.5kwh capacity- mostly for camping but it will be able to charge both our bikes with room to spare. *edit- Lifepo4 sogen
I purchased one and I ran three batteries in series. one of them and two lead acid marine rv batteries
I was planning on getting one of these AGM batteries until I read about them here on the tube. You can't drain them all the way down like a lithium I saw. I think it was 50%.
What are you planning on getting?
@@JohnDrivesAnything I think I will have to go with a 12v 100ah lithium.
QUESTION ?How high can you charge these thunderbolt batterys?
Should I charge @ 11 volts I think I ruined one battery
These are very good for the money
I bought an extra one to run a Microwave in my van ruclips.net/video/VqRonIbLi5s/видео.html
Wow that battery is holding a good charge to run that portable camping A/C unit. I say if the battery last at least 2 years you have gotten your money's worth on it even if you didn't have the 20% off coupon sir. Being cool in your camper van down by the desert
I might get another one. You can hook as many together as you can afford and create more reserve capacity that way.
@@JohnDrivesAnything yeah I think it would be worth it to get a second one
@@josephd27 If I get another battery and a bigger inverter then I'll be aIble to run a Microwave oven. I might be able to now. I should try lol If I had this I can run one for sure www.harborfreight.com/2000-watt-continuous4000-watt-peak-modified-sine-wave-power-inverter-63429.html
@@JohnDrivesAnything do it. Do it now
QUESTION 💥💥💥How high should we charge it up?
I just run a windy nation single 100 watt panel and it charges it up to 14.4 at most.
You purchase a solar controller which regulates the charge rate and turns charging off when the battery is fully charged.
Thinking of getting this battery for my shed solar setup. 100w panel HQST, with a 30 amp 12V/24V PWM solar charge controller. Just to power an indoor LED shop light, and an outdoor motion sensor light. Will be in Cold and Hot temps (new england). Haven't settled on an inverter yet. Think this battery will be up to the task?
This will be fine LEDS dont use much wattage
why not get two and wire in series. two should be no bigger than the optima battery and half the price.
So parallel 2 of those and it seems those would have a decent capacity.
Yeah I need to run another one so I can run my space coolers and 12 Volt Freezer over night. I sleep in my van 1 or 2 nights a week when I road trip. It'll run my space coolers or freezer over night but I can't have both.
@@JohnDrivesAnything looks like a good setup. I'm thinkin about getting the 100 watt solar panel kit they sell and wiring it up to a pair of deep cycle marine batteries that are about 105ah each to help get me off the grid( to some extent). I'd just need lights and a few charging ports.
@@ciphercode2298 105 AH is a lot of Reserve power. This HarborFreight Battery is 35 AH which is around 400 WH. When you look at those Trendy Portable Solar Power Station Generators a 700 WH station runs $500 and above. Thats a good amount of power. Your 105 AH Battery is 1000+ WH
If your just running lights and a Electric fan maybe a small TV and keeping your Electronics charged even without receiving a charge lets say on a rainy day that's a few days of power.
More Electricity the better. 100 watt panel will keep that topped off all the time if you run low draw accessories.
@@JohnDrivesAnything Good to hear,thanks. I thought about those solar power stations, but alot of them get iffy reviews over the long haul
@@ciphercode2298 I have 2 1 already failed on me and when 1 part fails it's a paper weight. With Solar you have The Panel, Charge Controller and battery, So you if 1 thing fails out of the system you can replace the failed part. I don't recommend stations at all. Maybe a Cheaper lower capacity one just for Backup. I have a 155 WH Westinghouse. It's cool having a Battery and plugs all in one. That is just good enough to run my space cooler overnight. That 155 WH of capacity was $129 vs this battery with 400 WH for $80 no more HFT coupons
12.2 volts is low as u wanna go without damaging your batteries
What is the name of the solar charger controller and model?
It's a Windy Nation 100 Watt Kit I got off of Ebay 7 years ago. They're still around but include a better charge controller now. The Brands is PWM they still include PWMs but more modern
Isn't a 101Ah deep cycle battery one you can run down to lower % .....versus this one that you shouldn't go below 50%
They are suppose to be good for repeated discharging. Here is my 2 year later review
ruclips.net/video/FHFKtR3pvpw/видео.html
I’m using four of these batteries inline and I’m having problems with drawing and draining power. I’m thinking I don’t have enough panels? I’m I’m the set of the 100 watt panels. Four panels 25 watts each
What are you running off yours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything a 6k btu window unit air conditioner and a 55 inch tv
@@davidray5791 Each HFT Battery is 420 Watt Hours. I'm guessing a 6000 BTU AC is running 600 watts per hour so Is your run time with the AC around 2-3 hours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything yes exactly
@@JohnDrivesAnything now the batteries only charge up to about 12.8 during the day and drops to around 12.4 at night with absolutely no load. Nothing plugged into the inverter for about 3 days now and I still can’t get more than 12.9 volts
My entire battery bank is made up of these batteries. Currently I have 15 of these batteries connected in parallel, which is connected to 8 harbor freight 100 watt solar panels, with a 40 amp solar controller made by grape solar i bought from home depot. I could not be happier with this set up. My batteries are fully charged by noontime everyday even when it's cloudy outside. I have a 4000 watt pure sign wave inverter connected to the battery bank and I never EVER have to tweak or otherwise do anything to maintain the system. I've had this system for a little over 2 years now and never have to worry about not having enough power for ait conditioner, vacuum cleaner, microwave, power washer...etc.. I get up each day to only having used 8% out of 100% of storage. During the day I use whatever I want... worry free.. these batteries are amazing.
Nice You're winning at life when you have enough batteries and Solar to run a AC
@@JohnDrivesAnything Well it took awhile ...I didn't just go out and buy everything at once. I bought 1 hundred watt panel at a time and I bought 3 batteries to add to my bank every 2 months untilIgotit where I am now .... It takes a little investment but once you have it ... it saves money... I don't even pay a bill anymore.
@@JohnDrivesAnything What is that little air conditioner thing you have in your van?
@@trevorforrester3142 It's called a mightykool. I would love to run a real home air comditioner but how many batteries do you think I would need to run it overnight about 10? 5000 BTU is about 500 watts per hour, these are 420 AMPS so 10 would run about 8 hours?
@@JohnDrivesAnything As I said above..... I have 15 of those harbor freight batteries like you reviewed in this episode, but on reality I would imagine 10 batteries would get you through the night. As it stands for me right now, I can use my AC through the night and still have 80% battery storage left over in the morning. You never should let a lead acid battery or batteries go below 50% which translates to 12.2 volts. You will drastically shorten the life of the batteries or battery by doing so. I wanted enough batteries that it would be like I was connected to the power grid... like I didn't ever have to worry.
Nice!
Really impressed with it for $58. The Optima had double the reserve but cost 4 times more. If I bought another one of these I'd match the Optima for half the price. I'm tempted to especially If I get a Microwave
What if you ran it 8 hours during the hot part of the day? Would it matter?
Extreme hot and cold messes with battery run time. When it's really hot though the suns up and the solar is constantly feeding my battery a charge. At night this has enough capacity to keep my space cooler running all night. Thats what my battery is for. Run my space cooler in my van because I sleep in it a lot.
What is that. Is that kooler some type of AC were you buy it at
Mighty Kool K2 here's a review I did on it. I sleep in my van a lot and without this it would be impossible to sleep in it in the summer ruclips.net/video/iC3MAsSdRVM/видео.html
Can you use it while the solar panel is running the battery
Yes sir I did a updated demo video right here ruclips.net/video/p5Wi0bjyz8o/видео.html
30 amp battery at 12 .7 volt equal a total of only 381 watts that can be used.
Supper helpful thanks
Glad this video helped you out buddy
I'm thinking of putting a solar pabel on my Silver 1994 Toyota Celica will this battery be good?
You should trade your car in for a 2013 Dodge Dart and put a Solar Panel on that instead.
No homo Mr king
@@JohnDrivesAnything Dodge Darts have 0 power and horrible ride, with Fiat like reliability
Can u run a small flat screen TV and ps4 on one of these for more than a few hrs? Just starting living full time in my 2014 subaru forester.
You should be able to get about 3-4 hours
@@JohnDrivesAnything that's around what I was thinking, I'm sure the ps4 takes some juice. Just wasnt sure about all the technical stuff. Thanks!
@@adventureant2550 Here's a video I made explaining the technical aspect of capacity. I recommend a bigger battery or running 2 of these. My Optima Blue Top had almost double the storage of this battery and lasted 6 years before it degraded. This is degrading after a year because I run everything through this and let it get low all the time. Your battery will last longer if you don't constantly run it at under 11.5 volts ruclips.net/video/e2ykCdKjsqI/видео.html
@@JohnDrivesAnything I'll have plenty of sun
What panel are you planning to run
I believe HF stopped Coupons and "free" gifts.
I picked up stuff the other day and looked for coupons in MotorTrend coupon and free flashlight era is over!
Thank you for the info, Omw to buy one of these battery
where can one purchase that air condition you have
It's more of a space/swamp cooler I got it from swampy.net
I'm going camping next week I'll do a review on it
What size inverter are you using
750 watts. I normally run 100-200 at most. Havent tried a microwave with this yet
I was looking at these and almost bought some. But.
I ran into a guy that sells NEW 12 volt batteries th8are one year old. No labels so I don't know what kind. ( I think that they are Walmart? But 12 volt 750 CCA are $60 deep cycle $75 and 6 volt are $60. He says the deep cycle are 100aH. and the 6 volt are 232aH. I believe him
Hes been doing it for years. I think he has a hook up with a couple local Walmarts?
100ah=1200wh is a ton of capacity for that price!
With all due respect,
Did you have to count on your fingers ????
I don't remember. Probably
what is the cooling device?
Mighty Kool K2 heres a review I did ruclips.net/video/iC3MAsSdRVM/видео.html
will that battery run a small 20ft camper
What are you planning to run?
the fridge and a fan maybe
for emergencies
@@kimmisoo777 If you want to run a Fridge I would go with an Optima Blue Top if you want to run a Fridge. This battery is ok for under 100 watt drawing accessories.
its only a small hotel size fridge
but thanks for replying!
Can a couple 35ah deep cycle batteries run a 24v 2000w inverter ?
What are you planning to run?
@@JohnDrivesAnything I was trying to run my led lights for my plants it's a 140w light at 1.17amps and a lil fan
@@diysolaradventures7894 what plants ?😅😅😅
@@alabamaoutdoors4468 ohh just some happy plants them green ones that grow all fuzzy ya know 😁🤣😂🤣
Skip the inverter and run your lights of the charge controller directly , of course they have to be 12v(24v) same as your charge controller power output.
Iam running 5 l.e.d 12v lights on 2 parallel 12v output and it work great.
cheapest car batteries last longer then the high end priced batteries from videos iv watched
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For anybody watching this video, The Harbor Freight battery are straight up garbage. That guy must have gotten lucky and got a good battery. I've gotten three from Harbor Freight. One of them was crap right out of the box, the other two wouldn't even hold a charge. Nor even take a charge. They are straight up garbage
Man that sucks their return policy is great at least. I went through 2 of thier $100 generators then gave up but they were cool with returns each time. I want to get another one of these hopefully I get another good one
Did you check the voltage and manufacture date before leaving the store? If the battery isn't at least 12.75v or better and isn't more then three months old sitting in inventory there should not be an issue. I made sure mine was less then a month old and checked the voltage before I left the store. I do the same on all batteries.
That sucks , I got 2 last year they still running. 🤔
Only last one day
No you can keep recharging it
How do u keep it recharging I have a 100 watt thunderbolt magnum solar panel and 1000 Jupiter inverter where's the button to recharge
Battery setup is an abomination with just the inverter clamps holding the wire on. No fuse, the list goes on. Truly an example of hillbilly or meth head engineering.
Thanks for the comments. The more comments and views I get the more YT pays me. Maybe I can buy class one day and be less hill billy
This is total BS. You can just do simple calculations to see that a 7A load (84 watts) cannot run more than 5 hours (since it is a 35Ah rated battery), and normally for this type of battery, you shouldn't run it below about half of its rating, so 2.5 hours. Downvoted for BS.
I don't know what to tell you dude. I let it run for as much as it would go. Even showed the time on the clock.
@@JohnDrivesAnything There is no way it can run an 84+ watt continuous load (which is 7+ amps at 12V) for 8 hours. It is not rated for that. Maybe it cycled off when you weren't watching it.
@@davidjames1684 It's possible. Sometimes I see 15 watts out of this at full speed but I never sit and watch the watt meter I just glance at it.
@@JohnDrivesAnything That is likely why then. It is not a continuous load. You shouldn't say it is 88 watts when it is a variable load.
Haha! Funny, I just now found this video and watched it, after all the months since you posted it, and went to say something about the capacity issue, and saw that the ONLY other post addressing this as well was just a day ago!
Anyway, David is right - even a high-end battery with accurate ratings should have run dead flat at 5 hours with that load... another possible issue may be more along the lines of your wattmeter (built into the inverter, right?) may not be accurate. Perhaps it isn't properly accounting for power factor of the load, or maybe it just isn't made to be accurate for small loads that aren't close to the full-power limit of the inverter.
I'd like to see an ammeter reading of the DC amps coming off the battery to the inverter. It may actually only be drawing 2 or 3 amps (30-ish watts at most) when that cooler is reading the "80" watts on the inverter. Either that, or yes it really is cycling somehow or drawing much lower power most of the time when you haven't caught it.
Anyhow, kudos for trying with this demonstration - but something funky is definitely going on to goof up your measurements, somehow!
Oh, yes... and if you do get around to measuring the current (or even if you don't), PLEASE get a fuse in there somewhere close to the battery, too! You'd have to run that swamp cooler a LONG time to cool off from an electrical fire! :-)