Keep us apprised, Todd. I’m in a quandary over replacing my factory 14+ year-old original house batteries. More Interstate wet cells would be cheap and easy, and obviously are long-lived. But all but one advisor, a respected member here, like lithium’s, and his main concern was with the price, 9 times that of wet cells. He’d stick with flooded ones. BMS only adds to that cost, and contrary to some info, a Magnum/Big Boy/BIRD system can charge them, just not as fast.
I too was looking into Battle Born, and Expion and Victron, all road-tough brands unlike cheaper Chinese-made ones.
One Bend repairman has replaced more AGM’s than he can count, and isn’t a fan of them. So now I’m not certain what I’ll do. A year ago I would have bought Costco flooded Interstate GC2’s, like the old ones, but I’d rather not deal any more with the tray corrosion and plastics melting related to gassing wet cells.
Joel