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Hi All,
On my P-19 I have a marine 12V that supplies power for various
peripherals.
I store the boat on trailer at a marina yard, and don't have any way to
charge the sucker, except removing it from the boat and carting it home.
Soo, my plan is to minimize the number of times I do this in a season by
installing some form of battery monitor that can keep track of the
battery's state. I have seen one such series of products from Heart
Interface, these track volts, amps, amp-hours and time remaining. How
have
other people solved this problem? Alternatives to carting a heavy
battery
around are enthusiastically solicited (lugging my Honda 5hp is enough)
:-)
Thanks!
-Scott
I hooked up a solar battery charger and kept the boat at a mooring all
summer. Battery didn't need any additional charge. Note that I used the
Minikota trolling motor occasionally, as well as lights, fishfinder and
gps.
http://www.jademountain.com/carchargerspv.html has info on a Power-Pulse
device that is supposed to remove sulphation from batteries. I'll let
you know how it works.
storm Balboa 20 Honalee