"DaveS" wrote
Your experience seems to suggest that ponying up for the 100 watt
panel/controller early on is the way to go.
Dave
You got me surfing and I stumbled onto this site
http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Battery_FAQ.htm
I haven't looked around it much, but the page on deep cycle batteries in
this link seems very impressive ... might be worth looking at the other
pages, too G