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Has anyone purchased a set of 8D house batteries lately?

I need a set of Lifeline Concorde AGM (255 amp @ 20 hour) 8Ds for the house. I priced them at Newell ($594 each). Just thought I would check around to see if anyone had a better price. Batteries Plus has them for $616 plus shipping.

An inverter repair technician told me to replace the AGMs with wet cell deep cycle batteries. Wet cell batteries have been frowned upon because when they "gas" it makes a mess in the bay and there is the danger of explosion. He says that there are new battery caps that route the fluid back into the cells when gassing occurs.

I'm not buying this "wet cell - new battery cap" approach. I am going to follow Newell's advice; install AGM Lifelines - they're the BEST!

I would appreciate your thoughts.