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Old 08-01-2014, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Astro_Bot View Post
Apologies if you already know this, but those starter packs aren't deep cycle - they're typically designed for sparse usage and 5-10% discharge, similar to a car battery, though I'm guessing that the starter packs are likely to use the cheapest and nastiest battery available.
Confirmed. At least for the ones I saw, obviously I can't speak for all of the various 'starter packs' out there.

When I was managing a Jaycar store we would get one or two customers a week chasing a replacement battery for their starter pack.
All of the old batteries were about half the weight of the equivalent sized replacement.
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