One other thing I have seen change over the years, but mostly due to the change from lead acid to LifepO4 is my usage. I used to keep a close watch on my power consumption, very close watch, always trying to drive it lower to keep the cycling of my lead acid cells down. It fluctuates but 6 to 6.5 kwhs is my daily usage, that is about 2 kwhrs a day more than when I had lead acid. After getting LifepO4 I was no longer concerned about about wear out failure of my battery bank. I slowly replaced all my lights from the 60 led equ to the 100 watt led bulbs. I stopped turning off lights like I once did and find I leave on multiple ones now. I leave the computer running 24/7 now. I don't use timers for load scheduling (daylight hrs) of some devices as I once did. I have become positively prolific in my use of power compared to how things were 5 years ago. Cycling of my batteries is not a concern anymore, age failure is. Now it is possible my batteries will live longer than I do.
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