Dropped the MOAB!

[Briguy]

Don't confuse this post with the Mother of all Bombs, no, I dropped the MOTHER OF ALL BATTERIES in the CC of my 23. Sam's club carries Champion Heavy Duty Commercial Truck batteries from Exide(not my preference) For a 4d 12 volt battery it carries 1000 CCA's and 320 minute reserve capacity. Guess what? It's not 179.99 like in Boaters World, no Just 89.95. I tried all day saturday to burn it down leaving everything on all at once for hours at a time and it cranked up every time. For those of you needinig something a little more tame, the same batteries they carry in the boating stores are about 20 bucks cheeper in Sam's.
http://www.exide.com/products/heavy_...ommercial.html

[JohnS]

Ohhhh, I like Exide batteries.....gonna have to take a peek so I know what to look at later when I need them. Already killed one Gell....

[strick]

Briguy

Are you using one battery or two with this new set up and what are you running for electronics.

Strick

[Briguy]

Strick, I use 3 batteries, just for extra safety. For engine one battery one I have a starting battery, for engine 1 battery 2 I have the MOAB. I can toggle between 1 and 2 for engine 1. For engine two, I have one Deep cycle/Marine battery.

All of my electronics, bilge pumps and permanantly "on" switches go through the MOAB. I currently have 2 1500 gph bilge pumps wired to sureflo automatic/manual switches, a sureflo 850gph livewell pump, a Leica DGPS, ICOM 402 DSC VHF, Garmin 2010 Color chartplotter(bluechart software is fantastic) with blackbox sounder and 50/200khz temp transom transducer, SiTex CVS 106 Color FF, Raytheon RL9 Radar, AM/FM Marine stero and SiTex gps.(as a backup) All mounted to black 1/2 inch starboard excepth the radar. Perhaps I'll get a picture up this weekend. I alternate between batteries to keep them fresh and if the battery for motor 2 goes down, I have jumpers....or I could do a 4th batt... [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]