On 8 Nov 2005 20:14:50 -0800, wrote:

Popular widsom has it that the batteries should be removed from the
boat before winteer storage. The boat will be stored outside, here in
Montreal,.

Question is, why can the batteries not be left in the boat if they are
fully charged before the winter and charged again in the spring?

You could try a rel small solar panel to keep up with internal losses.
Not the sunlight but the daylight type. Lots of boatowners here
(Holland) use 'm and are pretty satisfied with it.

Regards, Len.

Getting my 4Ds out of the boat to home is not an option. I get them
fully charged, then disconnect them and leave them in the boat. They
have never failed to start the engine on first try in the Spring.

I have hooked a 5 watt solar panel to my bank (two 8Ds and a group 24
for the genset) and hope they will make it through the winter on the
hard next to Lake Superior, where it will get down to -30F.

Those 8Ds are just too heavy to move. I will be checking them twice
this winter and be able to put the charger on them.

Capt. Jeff

Tamaroak wrote in
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where it will get down to -30F.


How do the government bureaucrats sell "global warming" to Minnesotans?

--
Larry