Battery Recommendations

One of my Odyssey batteries died on me, much to my surprise, so looking for a replacement.  Need at least 800CCA and would prefer maintenance free, so I don 't have to top up the battery water.  What do you folks recommend?


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Are you batteries the same?

Mon, 2009-02-16 13:37

Are you batteries the same? Or is one more for running devices and the other for cranking?

 

Edit: mmm agm

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They are the same and AGM. 

Mon, 2009-02-16 18:19

They are the same and AGM.  Haven't set them up for accessories and cranking yet, guess it's time as I have the bits.

 

 

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Stick with the AGM battery

Mon, 2009-02-16 18:28

Stick with the AGM battery that you have. they are telling us to rig all the new verados will AGM batterys. The odyssey batts are the go.

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Hmm I thought you had AGMs,

Mon, 2009-02-16 19:16

Hmm I thought you had AGMs, sorry to hear it died =(

I didn't realise they were that senstive to overdrawing!

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bump

Tue, 2009-02-17 10:32

On this topic, I have a 30 yamaha, running a vhf and 27 meg, and will be putting in a new sounder from my old b/w job to a navman 4600 and 600 transduecer, is it advisable to upgrade the battery with the increased drain required to run the new unit?

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Manual Start

Tue, 2009-02-17 11:09

No sparky myself but I reckon the existing size small car battery should be fine Adam.

Your only running those electronics from the battery as its a manual start donk. Every time you run somewhere its getting topped up.

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We've got heavy duty marine $170-$200

Tue, 2009-02-17 11:17

 sealed and it runs the sounder/radio/gps, never had  any trouble with batteries expensive but worth the money, every two yrs Bob buys a new one and the old one goes on the boat winch.

 Don't know the name of battery but cost $180

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Yer adam as long as your

Wed, 2009-02-18 15:40

Yer adam as long as your engine has a charging unit, (rectifier regulator)you will be ok.