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ELECTRIC ONLY LAKE - BATTERY SUGGESTIONS, PLEASE
In article .com,
says...
Need to get a new battery for a small pontoon boat used on a small
electric only lake. The motor in a Minnekota. Was hoping to learn
about some light weight battery/batteries, or some way of not having to
carry those batteries on a regular basis to be charged. (Not aging
gracefully, and the bad backs aren't getting any better with the
years.) Appreciated any suggestions! thanks
Personally I would go with some monster sized extra heavy duty
deep cycle trolling batteries. Leave them permanently mounted
during the normal season in good quality water shedding battery
boxes. Now you only need to move them twice a year, once to and
once from the boat and you will thank yourself for the extra
capacity. Now the hard part,,
You will want to charge the batteries while on the boat so buy
an 'intellegent charger', one that can do high rate at first, then
automatically kick back to trickle or finish charge. Find an
electrician freind and have him/her set up a nice dockside
approved outlet and ground the hell out of it at the dock location!!!
I wouldn't even carry the ground from your home. A typical
home ground/neutral can be a volt or two above REAL ground and
will cause untold electrolosys at your boat if any metal portion
of your boat is grounded to 'your house ground' and is also in the
water. Now you can run a nice 'Shore cord' made of SJO type wire
from your boat to your 'Power outlet pedastel' on shore, and fear
not, no one will be electrocuted!!
Best wishes, sorry my english is bad, I speak icelandic.
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