Thanks folks for more advice.
Great advice and knowledge. Thanks much.
Yes, I read your advice and decided not to change the acid. I bought the new
battery for 150.00 and they gave me 20 dollars for the old core.
If I didn't have the old core they would have charged me additional 20.
Now they have at Canadian Tire the new Nautalis Advanced battery for
$200.00 and it is same cranking amps and RC and has new technology using a
sock technolgy that eliminates the sulfating.
The secret is not to let the battery discharge for any lengths of time (eg
one month). Getting 6 or 7 or 8 years out of the battery is excellent.
Thanks for all the tips and advice, I will care for my batteries much more
focused now.
So the chap at the C.T. store tells me this new battery will last decades
and wont de-sulfate (which is the reason most deep cycle batteries die).
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/gr...l#.VXl-mlJ_9Cg
Thanks again gents,
very much appreciate your words.
73s
"Channel Jumper" wrote in message
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2x what Jim Higgins said!
I worked for a Automotive Salvage Yard and at one time the owner of the
junk yard allowed the employees to keep all the used batteries that did
not have a full charge or that had a hole in them.
I myself and my friend would bring these batteries home - in the trunk
of a Lincoln Continental and stack them on pallets until we got enough
to make a trip to the scrap yard, where they would pay $1.50 each for
the used batteries.
I had at times patched some of the batteries - with everything from
Bondo - not a good idea, to JB Weld, to Blue Goo - Blue or Red
Permatex.
I had a sewage problem at my QTH - home septic not city and I took the
tops off of several batteries and poured the acid inside of the commode
and when I was done, the porcelain shined like new. It did a good job
of cleaning out the pipes.
We once needed a battery, short term for a demolition derby car and
didn't want to use one of our good ones, so we found a car battery with
a dead cell and we took a 3 lbs dead blow hammer and we beat on the
bottom of the battery and eventually it broke up the sludge on the
bottom and broke the short and held a charge.
Marine Battery - 8 years old, PLLLEEEESSSSE give me a break.
Quit being so cheap and go buy a new battery.
As a matter of fact, if the two batteries are ganged in parallel, you
need to buy two new batteries, else the weaker of the two will rob power
from the newer battery and the old battery will kill the new battery!
Only a moron would post a battery question in an antenna forum.
My guess is that the boating people gave you the same answer, you just
didn't want to listen.
If you have no Denero - then you aren't going to be going boating this
year with two dead batteries.
The folks that gave the advice that the batteries does not like to be
stationary is dead on.
Maybe you could build a battery tray in the trunk of your vehicle and
haul them around while connected to a battery isolator all winter, and
you could connect something to them, maybe a car stereo or something,
that way the batteries would cycle each time you drove the vehicle and
it would keep them from going dead prematurely.
That is what I like about people.
When the sun shines, they don't think about their batteries, then when
winter comes, they drag their battery out of their boat and they put it
on a float charger and they think that they can perpetuate it by
charging it once in a while. Eventually they forget about the battery
for a month or two, or they place it directly on the cement floor and it
goes dead and then in the spring they run out to their shed or their
basement and go to grab their battery from last year - and it is dead!
Then they cry, moan and complain until they pony up the bucks to go buy
new ones!
You would be better off to buy a vehicle that has a battery tray large
enough to hold those batteries and rotate them on a schedule in your
vehicle and use them once every 3 months for a month to keep them
charged then you would just setting them on your work bench on a
charger.
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Channel Jumper