Battery Life

[Dftodd]

could be all the hot humid weather sucks the life out of them :confused3:

Here in Arkansas it's hot and humid. Then can get down to 0°f in the winter. The factory AC/ Delco battery was replaced last month on my 09 sierra. 10 years was a really good run.

Average though at work is 3 years on equipment. 5 years on vehicles.

In the equipment, the battery life really depended on the series. 24 and 31 series batteries lasted up to 3 years.
4D batteries last about 1.5 years to 2 years.

 

[Wagtail]

Important battery PSA for my Northern Hemisphere friends:

 

[Jstpssng]

My father's 2008 Kubota still has the original battery, and I didn't even think about it until reading this thread. It spends all of it's non running time in the unheated barn cellar, so doesn't see the fluctuations of hot and cold which other vehicles do. Long story, but there's been a 6 pack of Mich light in there for a while which hasn't frozen in the last two winters it's been there.

 

[kenmac]

Here in Arkansas it's hot and humid.

I was there last week. Your hot and humid weather must have left, because it wasn't hot and humid in the part of Arkansas where I was

 

[Welshman]

I replaced the battery on my Chrysler 300 last fall - 14 years, 4 months. I replaced the battery on my T-1520 last week - 12 years.

 

[Dftodd]

I was there last week. Your hot and humid weather must have left, because it wasn't hot and humid in the part of Arkansas where I was

Yeah, it did leave for a bit thank goodness. Through the first week in October it was in the middle 90's still most days. Should have been here from early july through middle of September. It was miserable this summer.

 

[kenmac]

Yeah, it did leave for a bit thank goodness. Through the first week in October it was in the middle 90's still most days. Should have been here from early july through middle of September. It was miserable this summer.

I was here where it was probably just as bad.
last month, we had record temps for about 2 weeks.and no rain for about 3 weeks

My son lives in Jonesboro Ak. he didn't mention it being that hot there

 

[Oaktree]

Important battery PSA for my Northern Hemisphere friends:

Thanks for the reminder! :laughing:

I maintain communications equipment some of which is on mountaintops that are hard to get to in the winter. Last thing we need is to have to schlep a battery for the generator up there with 3' of snow on the ground, so we replace them every 3 years.
I'll just take the old ones and put them in my vehicles, never had one fail me.