IslandTractor
Veteran Member
If you like the sound of a generator running then yes.Can buy a lot of fuel for a generator as well....
The conversion to lithium is not cheap but it is a reasonable consideration when it comes time to replace a battery bank. Prices of lithium batteries has dropped and the benefits are quite significant if either weight, time of charging or ability to discharge to nearly 0% SOC without damage is desirable. A 1600 amp/hr bank of AGM discharged to 60% SOC is really just a functional 600 amp/hrs of usable battery storage and because of the prolonged absorption and float stages can take many hours of charging time to replenish. A 800 amp/hr lithium bank could be discharged to 20% SOC with identical functional capacity of about 600 amp/hrs but would take much less time to recharge each day. The Battleborn G31 size (or is is G27??) is 100 amp/hr and comes with a 10 year warranty so reliability has clearly improved as well. The SV Delos has a bank installed and these batteries are increasingly popular with the RV set too.
I'd guess we will all be using lithiums in ten years so the issue today is whether the benefits justify early retirement of functional flooded or AGM battery banks. If you are happy with your traditional battery bank then the answer is probably no but if you are dissatisfied with the time it takes to charge it up each day then an early conversion seems a reasonable consideration.