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Hi and thank you so much. Current inverter and manual below. Full setup So moving forward - what is the cheapest/fastest charger for these batteries? - should/can the batteries be replaced with lithium (or other)? Please refer. - what is a suitable inverter/battery setup for stage 6 load shedding for our needs (perhaps more specific than gmac’s greatly appreciate advice above)? Thank you for patience with novice. Regards

Hi and thanks in advance We are running: 3 x routers 1 x laptop charger (always on) 2 x DSTV decoders 2 x TVs (1 on 1 off) Beginning February we started with 1 battery (120aH 12V deep cycle gel) and an Andowl 1200kW UPS inverter/charger. Despite intermittently claiming to be overloaded, this ran the appliances above for 2 hours. Mid April we added a second battery and got 4 hours (charging second battery independently with a smart charger. (Inverter charged 1 battery to 14.3V, smart charger the other to 13.3V)) Batteries held less and less. Inverter stopped working. Around start June we got a 2000kW Takealot inverter. Charging both batteries with smart charger to 13.3V we are getting 1 and a half hours until batteries read 10.5 or less. What have we done or are we doing wrong please? Thanks again