[Public-List] Batteries

[Gordon Laco]

Surprise's batteries are there too... Under the after floorboard at the foot
of the companionway.  She's a liner boat.

Gord #426 Surprise


On 24/07/11 6:04 PM, "mahseer at kos.net" <mahseer at kos.net> wrote:

> If you look at both liner and non liner boats they both locate the
> batteries in this area, this is not the actual bilge where the bilge pump
> is located but above this.  The non liner boat has a storage bin in the
> centre and forward sections of the cabin floor, also in a liner boat the
> wast holding tank is located in same area.  I have had my batteries in
> this area for over 10 years with no problems except for dust and food
> particles from the galley.
> 
> Hope this helps
> John Boor
> MAHSEER #380
> 
> 
>> Jim,
>>     Where have you located the battery bank? I am at the point in my
>> rebuild
>> where I am putting in the floor timbers and I need to know if putting the
>> battery bank beneath the cabin sole is a good idea. Jim Mahseer kindly
>> sent
>> me photos of the finished job that he did installing beneath the cabin
>> sole
>> and it look pretty good. But I still have a feeling, left over from my
>> wooden boat days, of dread when I put electrics in the bilge. Do I have a
>> legitimate concern? He also uses 6 volt batteries in series. What's the
>> consensus on installing the battery bank below the sole?  ^volt vs 12
>> volt?
>> Joe B
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Jim Davis <a30240 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> This answer won't go over well with the Gel crowd, but I had good
>>> success
>>> with a pair of Group 27 flooded deep cycle batteries from Sam's Club.
>>>  Noticeably less expensive than the marine stores.
>>> 
>>> They gave me ten good years of service and I used the stock regulator.
>>> In
>>> that Sandy and I were in the cruising mode we probably had more drain on
>>> them,but we never ran short.
>>> 
>>> My normal procedure was to start the engine in the "All" position and in
>>> the evening shift to just one battery.  I used the "Odd/Even" method.
>>> If
>>> the date was even, I used battery 2.
>>> 
>>> With our current boat thing are a bit different.  I have about 450 AH in
>>> the house bank, but I also have a larger electric consumption.  Even so
>>> I
>>> usually start on the house bank and only use the starting battery if the
>>> house bank won't do the job (three days at anchor).  I still haven't
>>> spent
>>> the money on a fancy regulator.
>>> 
>>> Jim Davis
>>> S/V Isa Lei
>>> 
>>> "Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from the
>>> encampment."
>>> US Army Field Regulations - 1861
>>> 
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