Chassis?Starter Grp 31 AGM. CROWN1 AGM?
I've been spending a few weeks trying to save my current CAT 8D Maintenance Free Starter Battery, due to an unfortunate few days of drain from Fog Lights being left on. (Pretty sure I have them back, ...
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One of my issues with having a starter battery, and the house battery, was that I basically never cycled the engine battery. The dedicated starter battery for engine starting seems like 52 or 68 Lbs of dead weight destined to be killed by engine heat and age, rather than actually cycling.
While my system allows me to use either battery as house or for engine by turning a few switches, when the screwy31 was compromised enough I removed it from my rig, I had only the Northstar for both duties and all switches have remained at battery 2 since june 2015. I was modifying a spot to fit a T-1275, but once I saw the Northstar could easily fullfill all my needs on its own, that project was put on the backburners
I've not required more house battery capacity, and as much as I remove from it, it can still start my engine.
Seems the Northstar cycleability and the high CCA are a good match for me. It seemed a waste to have the very capable Northstar being cycled only when I needed to equalize my 'dedicated' house battery.
A while back I considered carrying a small 12 or 18AH AGM just for the jumper battery factor, should it be required, but put that off too. I was considering a small Odyssey Agm as they have no issues with very high recharge rates, but had I plunked down the ~100$ for it, it so far would have been unused.
I'm all for warm and fuzzies. A dedicated starting battery would remove all worries. My Northstar is well used and aged and one day there will be the inconvenient 'click' when i turn the key. I guess my goalpost is to have another battery ready for the day I hear that click, but not two days before.
That said, if I did have a dedicated engine starting battery it would not be a top $$ high CCA cycleable Agm battery, but likely a wally world starter group 27. If I were to have a dedicated house battery, and since I can recharge properly, I would go for the top$$ cycleable AGM, and 125Ah Lifeline GPL-31XT or perhaps the 150AH GPL-30HT would fit that bill. But then again so could their 100Ah group 27.
But since I want one battery for both engine and house duties I will compromise some deep cycleability for high CCA, and the Northstar has proven itself to me in this task.
But then again I also occassionally enjoy dippng a hydrometer, so the flooded trojan T-1275 is still in the cards, but as far as cycling a 12v flooded marine battery again, well no, not gonna happen.
I view maintenance free flooded starting batteries as a No go too. I figure they were made/ marketed to those who, when asked when they last changed their engine oil, respond
"changed it to what?"
While my system allows me to use either battery as house or for engine by turning a few switches, when the screwy31 was compromised enough I removed it from my rig, I had only the Northstar for both duties and all switches have remained at battery 2 since june 2015. I was modifying a spot to fit a T-1275, but once I saw the Northstar could easily fullfill all my needs on its own, that project was put on the backburners
I've not required more house battery capacity, and as much as I remove from it, it can still start my engine.
Seems the Northstar cycleability and the high CCA are a good match for me. It seemed a waste to have the very capable Northstar being cycled only when I needed to equalize my 'dedicated' house battery.
A while back I considered carrying a small 12 or 18AH AGM just for the jumper battery factor, should it be required, but put that off too. I was considering a small Odyssey Agm as they have no issues with very high recharge rates, but had I plunked down the ~100$ for it, it so far would have been unused.
I'm all for warm and fuzzies. A dedicated starting battery would remove all worries. My Northstar is well used and aged and one day there will be the inconvenient 'click' when i turn the key. I guess my goalpost is to have another battery ready for the day I hear that click, but not two days before.
That said, if I did have a dedicated engine starting battery it would not be a top $$ high CCA cycleable Agm battery, but likely a wally world starter group 27. If I were to have a dedicated house battery, and since I can recharge properly, I would go for the top$$ cycleable AGM, and 125Ah Lifeline GPL-31XT or perhaps the 150AH GPL-30HT would fit that bill. But then again so could their 100Ah group 27.
But since I want one battery for both engine and house duties I will compromise some deep cycleability for high CCA, and the Northstar has proven itself to me in this task.
But then again I also occassionally enjoy dippng a hydrometer, so the flooded trojan T-1275 is still in the cards, but as far as cycling a 12v flooded marine battery again, well no, not gonna happen.
I view maintenance free flooded starting batteries as a No go too. I figure they were made/ marketed to those who, when asked when they last changed their engine oil, respond
"changed it to what?"
