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^excellent. Let me see what you come up with. ugh.. next on my list: A new cranking battery. Mine started to die at the end of the season last year... it was a shitty carquest battery I bought last minute because my original cranking battery died while I was prefishing the wabasha tourney. You guys have any suggestions? Ideally, Reserve Capacity should be over 180 minutes and CCA should be 800-1000.
i run 3 cabela's agm class 27 n a walmart yellow 1000 ca everstart for cranking....
Rick, does that walmart 1000ca everstart battery have any reserve capacity? If so how many minutes is it rated at?I just picked up a group31 battery at batteriesplus for under $100. cca = 600ish, ca = 800ish and RC = 225 minutes. That should be sufficient for my engine. My main concern is to be able to have a battery with a lot of Reserve Capacity that can take a lot of load with all our electronics/live-well/water pumps that we run for 8+ hours during any given day.
never did pay attention at the crank for reserve b4, have always gone by ca only.... but my agm's r 180rsv, but they r hvy, 62lbs each. i haven't had drained moments yet running 3 sonar n the aerator on auto. knock on wood
aah.. i been reading a lot about specs. They say reserve capacity is just as important as cranking amps - especially for a cranking battery since we have all our electronics plugged into it.Do you all take out your batteries and keep them indoors (while charging them) during winter?
no, i just disconnect the wires n leave it.
I charge it full b4 disconnecting, but yeah, no charging all winter
Rick, u might be interested in these. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat21404-cat21406-cat21428&id=0036084120629a&navCount=1&podId=0036084&parentId=cat21428&masterpathid=&navAction=push&catalogCode=OG&rid=&parentType=index&indexId=cat601233&hasJS=true
likely will