The Axelrods wrote:

Go for the deep cycle marine battery.


Be careful here. many (most?) marine batteries are the victims of
fraudulent advertising. They are not deep cycle.

It's like the 17 inch monitor with the 15.1 inch view area, or the
Sears 5 horsepower electric motor that runs on 12 amps 120 volts.


http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Bat...le%20Batteries


http://snipurl.com/aiwk



mike

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 19:43:05 -0600, m II wrote
(in message Jmekd.140710$9b.60969@edtnps84):

The Axelrods wrote:

Go for the deep cycle marine battery.


Be careful here. many (most?) marine batteries are the victims of
fraudulent advertising. They are not deep cycle.

It's like the 17 inch monitor with the 15.1 inch view area, or the
Sears 5 horsepower electric motor that runs on 12 amps 120 volts.


http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Bat...rine,%20and%20
Deep-Cycle%20Batteries


http://snipurl.com/aiwk



mike

From what has been said over the years, the best battery is (actually are
iirc they are 6v) the golf cart batteries.

The suggestion made when we were discussing this was go out to 2 or 3 golf
courses and see exactly what brand/type they're using.

Also, I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to buy a couple of them ($20 or
so) and see how long they'll last. Just because they won't do a great job of
onercoming inertia doesn't mean that they can't do an excellent job of
pushing (comparatively speaking) electrons into radio gear.

Solar should recharge just fine. The brand name I've seen rated best is
"Kyocera". A guy here has done a /lot/ of comparisons but he stopped cold
after getting his first Kyocera because he didn't see any reason to keep
looking.


Gray/Mississippi

Gray Shockley wrote:

Also, I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to buy a couple of them ($20 or
so) and see how long they'll last. Just because they won't do a great job of
onercoming inertia doesn't mean that they can't do an excellent job of
pushing (comparatively speaking) electrons into radio gear.

Very true. Even if they don't do too well in a golf cart, they may
last for another fifty years if powering a radio.

I've been hoping to get very lucky and find some swapped out phone
company wet cells. I had one when I was a kid. They had a clear case,
with a built in hydrometer. Six volts and monster plates with NO
sediment or visible sulphation.

I'd kill to have a few dozen of them now. I recently got 160 watts
worth of solar panels that could really use the storage space

Until I hit the jackpot, I'm using US Batteries 2200 225 amp hour
models, which are similar to the Trojan golf cart batteries. These are
all mid range quality, falling between car batteries and TRUE deep
cycle (read $$$$$) batteries. It's a compromise.



mike