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Default small boat refrigeration- or lack of

On Jan 15, 5:04*am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:53:38 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

In your situation Wayne, yes, i'd agree that the higher amped unit,
the better because you have too many constants pulling power all the
time and at throttle, that Detroit probably doesn't really know it's
there anyhow.


Believe it or not you can actually hear the 6-71 grunt for a split
second when I switch the bank of golf cart batteries online, no belt
slip however. *We've put about 30 hours on the new Leece-Neville over
the last week and no issues so far.

If you get tired of horsing around those 8D batts you might consider a
pair or Trojan T-145s as a replacement. *They also have better deep
cycle characteristics than most 8Ds.


Oh, I can believe that could bog the engine on an initial pull, but
when stuff gets lined out the engine probably doesn't really know it's
there.

Concerning the batteries, well, a customer of mine has Cat equipment
and always keeps fresh Interstate batteries on shelf. he said i could
borrow one any time i wanted.

so.....