Exide ES 900 gel battery price

[Hooflungdung]

I need to replace the leisure battery on our van and have been `reading the various posts to try and decide what to fit. Interestingly, the current battery is 110 Ah Lead Acid original battery fitted by Adria with a manufacturing date of 2010 and when I tested it last year was giving 50 Ah. Given that we are away in the van for anything up to 100 nights p.a. we have probably had pretty good value from the battery. I reckon we’ll be lucky to get 14 years out of the next one!

Having researched the options - Lithium/Gel/AGM - I concluded that Gel is the way to go for us and note that the Exide ES 900 seems to be favoured on the forum. I was about to press the button to order from Tayna when I noticed that it has a C Rating from NCC and only carries a 12m warranty which seems a bit mean compared to other brands. C rating seems to be for occasional/basic use whereas I was intending to go for an A rated battery more suited to off grid.

So, I wonder what Funsters views are and whether the NCC rating should carry any credence?

Thoughts?

BTW. Seems like Infinite Solar still offer best price but are ‘out of stock’.

 

[Dickyb]

I paid £370 for two last November, I must say I’ve been very happy with them

 

[DavidG58]

Hooflungdung

You have found something I didn’t know and have never noticed, but this battery is pretty much a default gel battery for manufacturers to fit and they have seen us through 11 years of ownership , albeit replaced every five years

 

[Pausim]

Hooflungdung
Carthago fit the ES900 as standard in their Malibu Vans which I would say is a far better recommendation than anything the NCC has to say. The NCC score it down to a C rating purely because it has less than 90Ah capacity, paying no regard to more important factors. The NCC will award ‘A’ ratings to batteries with a cycle life of only 350 (at 50% DoD) but the ES900 should give you way more than this, probably double. I think the NCC is way out of touch with reality on this and other issues.

 

[Lenny HB]

when I noticed that it has a C Rating from NCC a

NCC rating is total BS, they don't even test the batteries loads of batteries they give good rating to are uter crap.

Providing your charger has a Gel charging profile you won't gar far wrong with an Exide or Schonnenshine Gel both made in the same factory.

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[Steve and Denise]

NCC rating is total BS, they don't even test the batteries loads of batteries they give good rating to are uter crap.

Providing your charger has a Gel charging profile you won't gar far wrong with an Exide or Schonnenshine Gel both made in the same factory.

Have you took delivery of your van today

 

[Montezuma]

My 2013 Adria was equipped with one of those Exide ES900 batteries, and I have just replaced it with an identical item from Infinite Solar.

(Tale recounted in another post).

Ordered on Saturday and delivered the following Wednesday.

Seems like a good result all round.

The original lasted for 11 years of fairly hefty regular use.

When delivery and VAT are added, I don't think they are much cheaper than the price at Tayna ?

I wonder if I purchased the last stock item from Infinite Solar ?

 

[WESTY66]

Anyone want two of these batteries? Age unknown, condition all good fully working

 

[Hooflungdung]

Thanks for the responses. Hopefully Tayna will deliver the ES900 today - they currently have a 5% discount so I paid £176.66 inc delivery.