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Buying Boat Batteries - Check My Thinking
"DSK" wrote in message .. . Also, you don't mention it but are you putting in a hard wired charger? Definitely get & use a 3-stage smart charger no matter how you rig it. On such a smally boat with such low electrical draw and only weekend use do I really need/want a charger? Won't my generator take care of charging up the batteries? Other question: I do have a good home based battery charger. It has both a full charge & trickle charge setting. But I see that trickly charging all winter is going to kill the battery. So are my choices are basically as follows ?? A: Charge it when taking it out, then leave it all winter B: Go to the shop every 2 or 4 weeks and charge it for a while C: Buy a "smart" or "float" charger and leave that running And is it really OK to leave a smart charger running and connected to a battery for weeks at a time without checking on it? The thought of that just makes me a little nervous. |
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Buying Boat Batteries - Check My Thinking
Gary Warner wrote: "DSK" wrote in message .. . Also, you don't mention it but are you putting in a hard wired charger? Definitely get & use a 3-stage smart charger no matter how you rig it. On such a smally boat with such low electrical draw and only weekend use do I really need/want a charger? Won't my generator take care of charging up the batteries? Other question: I do have a good home based battery charger. It has both a full charge & trickle charge setting. But I see that trickly charging all winter is going to kill the battery. So are my choices are basically as follows ?? A: Charge it when taking it out, then leave it all winter B: Go to the shop every 2 or 4 weeks and charge it for a while C: Buy a "smart" or "float" charger and leave that running And is it really OK to leave a smart charger running and connected to a battery for weeks at a time without checking on it? The thought of that just makes me a little nervous. |
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