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Odyssey Dry Cell Batteries
Product review by Capt. Steven Lamp
Dream Catcher Charters
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Mercury
Outboards for Sale
Used Boats For Sale Most of us are guilty in
that we never really take notice of our batteries until they let us down or
we need to clean the crud off of our terminals. Generally we take this
notice in the worst possible location. Miles from safe harbor.
These days it is critical to make sure that the
batteries that we use on our high tech boats to carry us out further,
farther, faster and not to mention run our highly advanced electronics all
day in unison with 2 and sometimes three bait well pumps. Add all this to a
stereo while you fish and you have a reason for a marine battery to want to
be Suicidal before it even enters your compartment that is reserved for
these slaves of power.
In my flats skiffs I generally only run one battery,
some would say that I am crazy to run out to the Marquesas with only one
starting battery.. My answer these days has become much more confident. I
tell them "No sweat I run Odyssey Batteries. Funny thing is, my main
starting battery looks like the same battery in my Motorcycle.. Ok, maybe
not that small but it is about 1/3 the size of the Group 27 that I used to
use and I cannot seem to kill it. No matter how many times I have left my
aerator, or a bait well pump on over night.
I mentioned earlier about all the little things that
we as boater do to torture our batteries daily while we are on the water
lets add the Monster... Trolling motors.
My setup for trolling motors are twin mounted 82 lb thrust motors
that really pack a punch and undoubtedly use battery juice like a wino
hooked up to a bottle. My setup is done in 24 volt.
Lenco Marine Trolling drive 164
As far as the trolling motors are concerned, I
cannot seem to kill the batteries. While we were testing a bit for Odyssey
and Stealth propulsion Odyssey called me to ask me to not recharge for three
days during my heavy season to see if I could truly kill the batteries..
Nope. The motors did not even get slow. I am currently using 2 1750 Odyssey
batteries for my purposes and they are awesome. I recommend them to anyone
looking to put a great system together.
The cost of the Odyssey is strong at first. However,
those of you that use Trolling motors know that a regular battery can only
handle So many discharges and recharges that eventually they die. The
odyssey battery is designed to be recharged a Ba-zillion times.
Updates on the Oddysea
batteries since this article was writen
In one of the hurricanes I had
a float switch stick on me in the down position. Yep, the boat filled with
rain water and went over the batteries. The boats was on a lift (thanks
goodness). I called Oddysea to order new batteries assuming that the ones I
had were destroyed. They simply said. "Charge em up they are fine..... They
were right. Those batteries are in my 28 fter running a pair of
Mercury Verado.
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