Best Solar Eenergy Storage Battery for Home

Keeping up just fine. Got our heater, tv and fridge on it and it seems fine. We wanted to go small and see how solar system works before going full solar support for most of the house. And well, I gotta say that I'm surprised how well it's keeping up with the main juice suckers of the house. Electric bill is down a bit, although we didn't use that much to begin with. But now that it's the holidays and cold, we should see a bigger difference over the next couple of weeks.

I should note that although this worked great in summer, for winter, we needed a bigger battery. A much bigger one, lol. We actually had to practice conservation of energy. It was a hard and interesting experience. Showed us how much we do rely on things. But when the power did go out, it was nice not to have to scramble for candles and flashlights. It was nice to continue watching our movie with the heat on, put on a pot of tea and eat leftovers. Even if one can't afford to go full solar, which we can't just yet - laundry, dishwasher, yikes - but it's still so awesome as a back up.

Love my chrome batteries! I have been using 2 of the 35 ah in parallel to run a small off grid solar system. We run 12 v led lights, music, and a small inverter with no issues. The system is powered by a 100 watt renogy panel with a sainsonic mppt tracer 10 a controller. My batteries came charged and have had no problems thus far (8 months in service). My only complaint is the terminal size did vary between the two batteries I got (ordered at different times). I debated return it but decided it didn't matter because I was making my own interconnect cables. Judging by everyone else's experience with Chrome I bet they would have made it easy.

I have used only once on my fishing boat. I operated a 40 pound thrust electric trolling motor in middle speed (thrust) settings for perhaps an hour. From the terminal voltage it appeared the battery was well on its way to 1/2 discharged -= a point one should charge if they want to get hundreds of recharge cycles out of the battery. So, its low 35 AH capacity is a bit low for someone who wants to operate such a load as I had and need to do that for three or more hours. Not a surprise I had used a "flooded" lead acid battery rated at 50 AH in the past. That battery would carry me for a full day of part-time trolling. I use a gasoline engine to move the boat from point-to-point.