Depends. In Alaska, yeah the extra capacity would help.

I lease my Walmart batteries. I get the 850s for about $97 each, a total of $194. I can get 30-36 months out of a pair before I hit a low of 10.00 to 10.25 volts, my point of trade-in on the lease. That at 30 months is $6.47 per month to lease.

The PC-1750 here run about $289 each, $578 total. At the lease rate of $6.47, the PC-1750s have to last about 89 months, 7.5 years to break even. And that’s about what they do.

Six hundred dollars is a lot of up front investment for me.

 

One has to have patience to reap the value of the PC-1750.

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Hard to see the value benefit in the beginning. But patience over the long term reaps a reward at the end game.

By 90 months, now on set #3 of batteries, you find a break even point.

But by 120 months, when on set #4 of batteries, the value graph of the PC-1750 spikes upward at the end game, saving a $200 lease payment.

I'm past 10 years on my Sears branded PC-1750's, which are still going, even with very short trips, and two alternator failures over those years.

If I'm really patient, perhaps I can save $400 at 150 months. I'm not sure that I'm that patient though.

I just enjoy not having had to ever deal with battery acid and corroded battery cables over the last decade.

My 20 year old battery cables and lugs and fusible links are all still the original production issue installed at KTP when the truck was built.

I've installed additional cables since, but they were only to supplement the OEM battery cables, not repair or replace.

So, the money saved not having to replace battery cables and lugs due to the off gassing of wet cell batteries could be factored into the savings as well.

 

I have no issue playing with batteries. Cleaning, not a big deal. We all make choices of what we care to do.

If you want to use those terms, my spare money goes to stock, and my major holding is AMZN. I first had it since way before May 2016, the last I bought my batteries for the F350 and keep buying AMZN when I can. The $378 battery savings since my May '16 purchase went to stock is now $714. It depends on what you want to do with that money.







The summer I was 15, I was with a few other guys in my Dad's landscaping crew cleaning up the yard of a well to do customer who owned a large vacation home on Long Beach Island, down for the weekend. As we are sweating our tails off, he's up on the deck talking to his friend (and complaining to him we were taking too long on a 97F day). Part of the conversation was telling his friend to always make your money works for you. I've always remembered that conversation, it's burned into the brain like it was yesterday.

I'm patient too, and I'm fine with the choices I make. Although I wished I'd followed my instinct of punting Sept last year. I didn't since that would have reset the capital gains. It could have been $916. What was I thinking?