IMO about the best you can buy for the price is a Banner Energy Bull.
Yes you can buy better but at a lot more cost, and you can buy cheaper, you can also pay more for less.
Remember they need lead to do the job so if its light be very careful; as a rough guide the more lead for the money the better.
If you are a CC member read John Wickersham's excellent and telling article "Power Players" October 2010.
Try Alpha Batteries at Oldham they sell some good batteries at a good price some with a 5 year guarantee and they are not far from you and they are very help full.Ian
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If you don't often go without EHU and only normally use the battery for the mover then have you considered using a car battery?
The high currents used by the mover is better suited to a car battery than to a leisure battery. If you use it without EHU often then the bulk of the use would be more suited to a leisure battery but if the bulk of the work the battery does is operate the mover then a car battery might be more suitable and cheaper. If you try a nearby scrap yard you should get a second hand one for £10 if not less.
Even if you use it when off EHU it will work as well but the lifetime of it may be shortened. However, a study has shown a lot of cheap leisure batteries to actually be standard car batteries with a different sticker on anyway.
Elecsol claim that their batteries are sell suited to either high or low current drain and that they can even be used to crank a car so for those that use a mover and often go away with out EHU these appear to be the way to go though they are probably the most expensive around. You may get lucky and get a second hand one though. I got lucky and got a 3 month old 115ah Elecsol for £60, which was cheaper than a cheap 85 ah. Given my old battery had just died I couldn't turn that down.
Apparently, customer service at Elecsol is disgraceful though and despite them selling direct to the public, a lot of people prefer to buy them elsewhere to avoid dealing with Elecsol directly, such is the poor service they offer. I've not contacted them myself, but before I bought my second hand one I searched the internet for reviews and the poor customer service was mentioned in most of the reviews. The batteries themselves got mixed reviews too. Certainly there was nothing there to convince me they were worth the premium price that you pay for them.
We use a 110ah, Diamond Leisure battery and found it very good and it holds it charge really well and handles the motor mover no problems.
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We have a Yuasa 110 amp. Its been on the van for 18 months and still looks as good as new. It powers a mover and we stay mainly on EHU pitched but we have a fair bit of moving to do to get the van in and out at home. Plus OH loves to park it on site so my reversing skills are getting rusty.
I take the battery off the van when parked up at home and keep taking a voltage reading both on and off the van, it has never been below 12.8v. I usually give it a charge every couple of months during the off season and use a Lidl charger (there are plenty of posts on UKCS about these).
Quote: Originally posted by vonc on 07/12/2012
Ive been told to get a sealed cranking battery f110 amp for our conqueror 630 with a motor mover on...and for £90
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A cranking battery is a starter battery and if you only need it for a mover it is suitable.
However if you wish to use it for stays off EHU it is not an ideal choice. It will do this but if you use quite a bit of its energy capacity it will have a short life before substantial levels of that 110 are lost forever.
Even like this it will still limp on reasonable well whilst on EHU but lose the ability to be much use off EHU.
If you are only on EHU you dont need as big a battery as 110 for a mover. Large batteries are specified for movers only because the mover may be needed with a somewhat depleted battery. 85 or 90 Ah is large enough for someone who only uses EHUs as it will be fully charged.
If you want a battery for off EHU then one designed for deeper discharging will be more suitable. High spec deep cycling batteries are very expensive but a quite good quality and excellent value battery like a Banner Energy Bull would suit most users. With batteries it is lead that is needed so buy the physically heaviest leisure battery of your chosen Ahs your funds can stretch to.
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