Those cheap golf cart batteries are a great buy. They work fine.....

Of course, I'm not a MARINE dealer....(c;

Everybody knows you need $469 GSM "boat" batteries in red, orange or
yellow cases. Black clashes with the white fiberglass......

We installed two banks of 350AH golf cart batteries on Lionheart.
They are twice as high as the bargains at Costco (hardly a wholesale
anything outlet like Sam's). We needed 700AH to run the hydraulic B&G
autopilot pump on Network Pilot.....They work great and have the same
footprint as the shorter ones.



On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:35:26 -0500, "Schoonertrash"
wrote:

The old boat had a couple of 4D's at 220 Amp each. The new boat is
currently using fairly standard 12 volt RV size batteries at 110 ratings
each. I'm thinking of going to the 6 volt variety as I have to go back up
to or near 400 Amp hours of storage. Which size, which voltage, and why?
If six volt are the fairly inexpensive one's from Costco (golf cart
batteries)useful or should I just spend the money at West Marine?

Tanks
Michael




Larry W4CSC

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