[Public-List] Batteries

[Rod Symmes]

Jonathan;

      Sorry for the delay - I finally located the invoice for the gel battery.

It is a PINNACLE     8G8D   225 AH     sold by Advanced Battery System Inc. in Oakville,  Ontario


Cheers,     Rod

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Rod,

Could you tell us the make and model of the gel batteries that you have ?

Jonathan

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Michael Devonshire via Public-List <
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> Many thanks, Rod!
> Mike
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> Michael;
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>       The previous owner of my boat installed honking big gel batteries
> that I have used for six years now and I am very pleased with them still.
> I just checked the records that came with the boat and it looks like they
> were installed in 2002.  Sixteen years is fabulous, I think.  My previous
> boat had flooded (lead/acid) deep cycle and I seemed to be replacing it
> every 3 to 5 years.  Deep discharge shortens their life.  The gel batteries
> are supposed to be more tolerant of deep discharge and can supply very
> heavy output if you use them to start the engine and also accept high
> charge currents as well.  I recently had a problem with the solar panel
> (another long story) and found the voltage was down to 11.6 volts.  I could
> have switched to the other, fully charged battery to start the engine, but
> instead ran an experiment.  I powered up the chart plotter first because it
> will shut down if the voltage is too low even briefly and then hit the
> starter on the 3 cylinder Yanmar to see if i
>  t would fire up.  Fast crank speed, instant fire up and did not even shut
> down the plotter.  I was very pleased on sixteen year old batteries.   I
> shudder to think what they would cost today BUT ...........
>
>      Oh - and no spill hazzard - no explosive vapour - accept heavy
> charging if you happen to have a high output alternator.  What is not to
> like ?
>
>
>  Cheers,     Rod
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