Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I use this to power everything in my tent, which to give you an idea has been described by my friends as "an RV without the wheels". I have a lot of things to power and charge. I have a popular plug-and-play solar package rated at 150 watt/hour, which has been nice but insufficient. I was tempted to buy their larger 400 watt/hour rated battery pack, but at $460 I just couldn't justify it. I bought this battery along with a cheap plastic battery box, a solar charge controller, and a four way 12v cigarette lighter outlet splitter. Oh yeah, and an inline fuse holder. Total cost was $170, and that was because I didn't skimp on the charge controller. I got the ritz so I could add batteries and panels galore in the future. I wired the battery and a charge port and the 12v splitter to the charge controller and put it all away neat in the battery box. The splitter is screwed onto the outside and so now I have a portable unit with 4 12v outputs. This battery is rated to 35 AH (about 420 watt/hour) and so gives me 252 watt hours without going under 40% charge. Nowhere could I find a graph for this battery for discharge vs cycle life, but I think 60% discharge is playing it pretty safe for a battery labeled deep-cycle. This powers everything in the tent: Cell phone booster, laptop, 12" 3amp fan, charges multiple phones, marine radio, air compressor, lights, Bose SoundLink, and runs my CPAP at night. The biggest draw is the fan, but that is only really on when it's sunny and therefore never costs me amps from the battery. Everything else can run for over three days of clouds should I get that unlucky, and will charge from 40% in 6 hours with the panels I have. The biggest win with using this heavy duty battery vs the popular plug-and-play solar battery pack, is that the other product cannot start my 12v air compressor! The cord on it isn't long enough to go from the truck all the way back to my PWC trailer, so I was forced to try to back a trailer up to a pump at a gas station. After building a new power pack around this battery, I can add and remove air from my trailer tires as needed and with ease! The compressor draws a solid 10.2 amps according to the charge controller. The popular product is rated to handle this, but did not. I hope to add a second Mighty Max ML35-12 next year for more capacity. This is a perfect size, capacity, weight, and price for portable applications, you will not be disappointed!