My plan for the homestead must be accelerated due to ineptitude from DC! While I still plan to build my own LiIon battery bank for the solar power storage needs, I need a bridge to allow me to move sooner. I decided on deep cycle, lead acid cells to be this bridge; due to availability.
Cost of the bridge was a problem to be solved, and I found a way. RV dealers do maintenance on customer's units, and many change batteries yearly to avoid problems on a trip. These batteries are one to two years old!
I found some here:
This is a load I got for just over two hundred dollars! They are voltage and load tested, and are over 13,000 watts of storage....
Unloaded, and racked on my trailer temporarily:
It looks like these will provide about 600 amp hours at 24 volts for my system, to bridge my needs until the LiIon batteries are ready! I need about 25,000 watts, but 13,000 is enough to start.
I must parallel all of them, and put them on a battery conditioner, to tweak them to their optimal condition. Then I will float them until I need them on the homestead!
There should be local equivalents for these batteries, where RV's are serviced. I hope you have as good luck as I have had!