Battery purchase direct from maufacturer

jack_121

Hi And thanks for reading. Are there any truck battery manufacturers i can buy from direct, do any of them have a website  i can buy from and save money rather than through a middle man.

Many thanks

AdrianC

If you just want one battery, none of the manufacturers are going to want to deal direct with you. They want to sell batteries by the thousand or million, not individually.

They sell to wholesalers, to national distributors, and to large retailers.
Even if manufacturers did have a direct retail entity to sell direct to you, you would almost certainly find that prices would be lower elsewhere.

custardy

As said,cutting out the middle man isnt always cheaper.

peter_the_piper

Plus it would probably be difficult to find a courier company to deliver it.

jack_121

Thanks. Thought i would give it a try.

Where would you recommend to buy batteries at the best prices.

I want a battery for a campervan which i am going to hook up to solar panels.

Am wanting the big 225ah type or around about that. A battery that will last me a long time. Seen cheap ones for slightly over £100 and they seem to go up to about £250

AdrianC

jack_121 said:

Thanks. Thought i would give it a try.

Where would you recommend to buy batteries at the best prices.

I want a battery for a campervan which i am going to hook up to solar panels.

Am wanting the big 225ah type or around about that. A battery that will last me a long time. Seen cheap ones for slightly over £100 and they seem to go up to about £250

Do you want proper deep-discharge leisure (expensive), or are you happy with normal starter battery and accepting you can't use the entire capacity?

A single 225Ah would be one BIIIIG specialist lump. A pair of 110Ah would be the more normal way of providing that much capacity.

Have you actually done the sums to see what capacity you need? No point in filling space with heavy battery you simply don't need. How big are your solars? Where and when are you going to be relying on the leisure(s), and for what draw? Will you have split-charge and/or mains charging?

Figure out what you want, then just shop around, online and locally.

facade

Lithium-iron-phosphate is the way to go, these will discharge down to 10% without damage, and weigh half of what a normal leisure battery would, but they cost about 5 times as much.

You really want class A AGM batteries, they can go down to 50% hundreds of times, a pair of

Yuasa L36-AGM 95Ah in parallel should do, set you back around £300 and run a microwave through an inverter for an hour or so.

Tayna is the usual place to buy quality batteries online.

neilmcl

https://www.tayna.co.uk/

neilmcl

jack_121 said:

Thanks. Thought i would give it a try.

Where would you recommend to buy batteries at the best prices.

I want a battery for a campervan which i am going to hook up to solar panels.

Am wanting the big 225ah type or around about that. A battery that will last me a long time. Seen cheap ones for slightly over £100 and they seem to go up to about £250

I'd suggest you contact a local motorhome/caravan centre for advice and checkout specialist forums. I'd imagine a 225ah battery is way too big for what you really require.

neilmcl

https://youtu.be/yi9yo1WNRu0

eamon

Don't forget that the extra batteries & solar array adds to weight of the van and may limit what you want to carry around.