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In Palmetto Fl where I had purchased the boat the surveyor had identified a charging issue and after we had determined it was a bad alternator the seller agreed to replace it as part of the sale. However after getting the boat home I had a mechanic go over it pretty thoroughly and they determined that we also needed a new starter battery (likely shot because of the old alternator). I expected to run into things like this so no worries I needed to purchase a new 8D and after a bit of research I learned that you had to match you existing bank if it was lead acids everything had to be lead acid so I bought an new lead acid 8D and installed it (I would have preferred gel but oh well). After another visit from the mechanic to check on the charging which wasn’t happening as expected with the onboard charger (I suspected the charger was bad) they determined that the two house batteries were bad *&%$#^. Well you can guess the rest, I purchased two more 8D lead acid batteries for my house bank (problem solvedJ). You will soon learn, if you keep reading that I am a bit of an overkill type of owner and I like things overdone a bit. When I was replaced the batteries I wasn’t really satisfied with the tie downs that prevented the batteries from moving in extreme conditions. These were original and fabricated from 2 X4’s and screwed in place with 2” wood screws. I decided that I wanted to develop something a bit more robust that wouldn’t rot etc… I used some heavy 3 X 4 polly lumber across the top of each battery and then I secured the polly down with ¼ threaded SS rod. This looks great, even though no one will see them and they will never move on their own even in the boat gets rolled. Now that I have three new 8D' I am considering installing a foutrth battery next winter. This battery would be a group 27 which is smaller and I would use this as my start battery. Currently one of my 8D batteries is dedicated for a start battery which is a bit of overkill and I could use this battery as part of my house bank increasing my total amp hrs by 1/3. However enough with the batteries for this year:)
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11/30/2015 09:27:09 pm
There are even some programs that will allow you to just mail in a collection of batteries that you've kept throughout a month or a year.
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