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"Lead Acid is far cheaper"

By Wh of capacity may be but certainly not by Wh cycled out of the battery, LFP has many thousands of cycle life.

"LFP 12v 100AH batteries for $290": let's say 5000 thousand full cycles, 121005000 = 6000 kWh out of the battery (with still 80% capacity left), that's $290/6000 = $0.048/kWh.




No one deeply discharges a UPS system on any regular basis.


Depth of discharge depends on spare capacity, use case and autonomy of the system.

It's entirely plausible for remote autonomous systems to be discharged deeply during a rainy period of several days.


> It's entirely plausible for remote autonomous systems to be discharged deeply during a rainy period of several days.

And how often is that going to be, pray tell?

Lead-Acid has hundreds of deep-discharges available. And these deep-discharges in the use case suggested (ie: 12V 20Ah Lead-Acid backing up a 3W Rasp. Pi) take 80-hours to happen with zero-sunlight at all.

So... how many multi-day periods per year do you expect to happen where you deeply-discharge such a battery over 80-hours? Even at 100-times per year (aka: every 3 days you have a full deep-discharge), with a 500-deep discharge lifespan battery, we're looking at 5+ years of durability. Worst-case scenario.


I never said it's a scenario worth worrying about, but also 5+ years isn't anything to be proud of for when you're designing systems.




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