Hi GC,
We'll just let those have their fun.
I have had the type of setup you're talking about in both a boat & a motor
home.
Go with the positive to the switch even though it's not quite so important
in a boat but in a vehicle (metal frame) it's essential as unless you have
an old 1955 bedford or something, most are negetive earth.
ALWAYS put your best battery on your motor start side. (say position 1 on
the switch)
NEVER be tempted to use that battery for accessories while on anchor. (it's
hard to push start a boat!)
Never forget to turn it over to No 2 when stopped.
Never forget to return to battery No 1 before starting motor.
Get a switch that will rotate either way through full 360degrees.
Have an amp gauge to monitor charge.
Once under way for several minutes when amp meter drops to zero switch to No
2 but AWAYS go in direction of No1 to BOTH to No2 so (like he said) you
always have current to alternator.
Doing it that way you also don't lose your GPS briefly.
I've said enough.
What ever you do make sure that bilge pump is ACTIVE!!!!! (get
that?........ )
Regards..... BruceM


"Folklore killer" wrote in message
...
"bowgus" miserably failed in attempting to insult his superior.....

in Message-id: ....

By blathering.....

So what you're saying is no need to turn in those old batteries, just
hook
up a new one in parallel ...


Which is not what I wrote so you clearly need to go back to "baby school"
to
learn how to read.

and oh yeah, no problem running a starting
battery (my understanding that's what GC has) for accessories until it's
dead ...


That is because either

A) You misunderstood what OP wrote or

more likely

B) You did not read it (or perhaps _couldn't_ read it).

or even more likely

C) were so busy trying to prove your superior knowledge (and failing quite
dramatically) that you forgot to read the entire thread before collapsing
your
lower jawbone muscles.

they can be recharged over and over and over?


Now please quote where that was stated by anyone.

Geez ... even a deep
cycle's life is shortened by doing that.


You don't say!

I do agree that a healthy lead acid
fully discharged has a very high internal resistance ... as a matter of
fact, so high that it cannot be charged using the alternator ... my
jeeping
buddy found that out.


Well you've improved your standing because now you have actually posted
something that is correct. Well done. Have a banana. As they say...
"there's a
first time for everything".... Now the whole of usenet knows that you know
_one_ thing, whereas before they all thought you knew _nothing_. Well
done.

But about that old starting battery (that GC has)
that's maybe dry to the plates or maybe bridged or ... my quick and dirty
risk assessment


So you forgot the read the sentence that said... "unless the battery is
U/S"

U/S being "un-servicable". As in broken, faulty, kapputt. Can you actually
read?

Or perhaps that sentence did not fit in with your plans of trying to
attack a
superior knowledge?

... adios old batteries ... I for one would do not connect
an old battery in parallel with my only way back to shore.


Again you show your inability to read. I did not tell OP to do that. Learn
to
read. Apparently, even in your hick ridden town, there are some people who
read. Even better there are some people who can _teach_ you to read.

So post us a
picture of your batteries configuration ... I'm always up for a good
laugh
... adios ... "killer" :-)


You can laugh at your own inability to read.

That is assuming you didn't actually post using your own name. You didn't
did
you? Post using your own name I mean.

Not really?

Well now you must feel really stupid.

Don't worry. Usenet only has a memory of about, er.... forever. So you'll
only
look stupid for about, er.... forever.

I love people like you.

You are so clever in your own little fairy world, that you forget, you are
actually very stupid.

You girlfriend told me so.

I love you all.
Cuddles.
Folklore Killer.