Which Battery?

Rosco
Century Yuasa is the same company. I don't know if the batteries are made in the same factory but I suspect so. Check out www.cyb.com.au

Pat

There ya go .... probably explains why I thought they're not a bad job.

............... ;-DFidei defensor

Rosco

Hello Eski

I am coming up to 5 years on my Yuasa.
Willem
Out on the Gibber

well there ya go
see, i dont seem to have a lot of luck with those excides ....hey! but if I get them for nothing, then all is not lost...just as long as I change them oftenWow, am I cute! The extra long legs are built-in prevention against ducks disease. Great looks and a real goer. Doesnt waddle along like some.

Cranking....... so that it can run the winch if that is needed.
Willem
Out on the Gibber

I wouldnt have thought a winch does not need a cranking battery willem.

I am human ...I think?

i'll rephrase
I wouldnt have thought a winch does needs a cranking battery willem.I am human ...I think?

stuff it i'll do it again
I wouldnt have thought a winch needs a cranking battery willem.I am human ...I think?

Hmmm...you remind me of someone Nudenut........

If at first you don't succeed Try and Try again. Good on ya!

I am quoting from an article in 4WD Monthly Magazine a while back
"A serious 4wdriver might do one big trip away every year, plus a little trip at Easter and half a dozen short weekend trips. Deep-cycle batteries are designed to be discharged and then fully recharged on a regular basis. Unless you are a National Parks Ranger or a tour operator, your second battery is likely to spend most of its time doing basically nothing....and thats one of the best ways to kill a Deep Cycle Battery. The reason many people fit a second battery is to power a winch, the theory being that the winch can run the second battery dry and you will still have enough grunt left in the starting battery to crank the engine. And here, clearly, an HCD(starting) battery is better at that job than a deep cycle battery."

I have taken that advice some time ago and it works for me.

Cheers,
Willem
Out on the Gibber

I hope I dont remind you of Prince Charles or the Duke of Wellington I am human ...I think?
Must be....make too many mistakes!

my ears dont stick out that much....do they?I am human ...I think?
Must be....make too many mistakes!

Yup

Try pulling 300 or so amps from a deep cycle and it'll bleep itself pronto.

They're designed for slow discharge rate ... least that's what I'm told.

CheersFidei defensor

Rosco

A true deep cycle battery because of its construction cannot deliver the amps required for starting. A number of so called deep cycle batteries are really hybrids and exhibt characteristics of both deep cycle and starting. My deep cycle is quite capable of supplying sufficient starting amps. BEAM ME UP SCOTTY


Hooroo
Ray

but are the insides identical????I am human ...I think?

I have it on good authority that the insides are indeed identical. I have a friend who is a manager of one of the Sprint Auto Parts stores, and he said that even the model numbers they use are the same.

One lives and learns......I keep on trying to keep it simple but I seem to accumulate more and more gear with more and more wires running everywhere in my truck

Cheers,
Willem
Out on the Gibber

Hey Moo

When you say "no need to top up water" do you mean it's a sealed low maintenance type?? That would be my preference due to its being located under the passenger seat.

Actually I believe in this scenario they are required to be sealed and vented to the outside.

The main factory battery is this type with a plastic hose (6mm) through a hole in the floor.

CheersFidei defensor

Rosco

Thanks Rosco.......Had a peek at their site...pretty impressive...trouble is the battery would be worth more than my truck...hahahahaha

Cheers,Willem
Out on the Gibber

Wayne,

You have apoint there. I haven't done much 'serious' winching lately and so far my aux battery has managed OK. If I have problems though I will change over to the main battery.
Willem
Out on the Gibber

True...
the main or cranking battery should be used for winching as they accept the alternators charge more readily than a (genuine) deep cycle battery.

Genuine deep cycle batteries are not suitable for winching.

Ray,

Yep, I suppose it is the luck of the draw with batteries as there seems to be good and bad in all of them. Proper maintenance is the key to longevity, I think.

Willem
Out on the Gibber

details at this site for the Delkor Battery

homepages.tig.com.au/~ccoelho/delkor.htm

Cheers

Thanks Bob...will check em out. One has to have the very best of gear and necessities when in remote locations.Willem
Out on the Gibber

Willem - I forgot to mention that I carried out a post mortem on the failed N70ZZ and the guts had vibrated to pieces. I put this down to the fact that I spend more time driving on corrugated dirt roads than I do on the bitumen.

I think this is something everybody should consider when looking to replace a battery, especially those who opt for the cheaper units - will it handle the constant vibrations of outback corrugated roads?

Diesel1

I believe boat batteries have extra supports for the plates or at least thats what I have been led to believeWow, am I cute! The extra long legs are built-in prevention against ducks disease. Great looks and a real goer. Doesnt waddle along like some.

Thanks Diesel I will check out the Supercharge. Anything that can bounce around in a tinnie out in the Arafura Sea should be a good battery.

How is Darwin. Spent 20 years of my life up there. Now it isa just as hoy here in the deep south. We are waiting for a cool change tonight.

CheersWillem
Out on the Gibber

Willem,

We've had a good wet season up here - plenty of run-off and a lot of big fish around at the moment - some absolutely monster jewies being pulled in at Leaders Creek.

Darwin is changing at a rapid pace and the wife & myself are thinking that it's time to head down the track a bit to try and escape all the crap that so called 'progress' has dumped on the area - too much crime at the moment and it gets worse by the day.

Diesel1

G'day Diesel1,

I arrived in Darwin at the beginning of the wet season in 1968 and just loved the place. Moved there and back around Oz a number of times but the bulk of my living in Darwin was from'77 to '92. After the cyclone, life had changed and by the early eighties I nearly had a seizure when I saw pollies wearing ties. I spent some time in Batchelor and Adelaide River over our stay up north and finally moved south to Alice Springs at the middle of 92. We pushed off from Alice in mid 95 and went on the wallaby till end '99 when we settled here in Peterborough SA(cheap housing then).

Darwin has had its ups and downs development wise and I was involved in a lot of development projects in ther early '80's. I was also one of those responsible for the development of Hidden Valley Motor Sports Complex and especially in the 4x4 area. I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of places in the Territory in my time up there and had enormous fun in the 4x4 club scene on hair raising waterlogged trips in the wet seasons.

I do feel that the rush for development has spoiled the wildness and the casualness of the Top End but I have fond memories of my time up north and no regrets.

After the age of 50 the heat becomes a bugger to contend with and so the time to depart from the tropics finally arrived.

Cheers,Willem
Little Dip Cons Park S.A.

Mick,
I am one of those persons who uses the aux once a year on a longer trip, then a couple of 4-5 dayers and a couple of weekends away. does that mean I should be keeping my Engel in the truck and turning it on every week to make sure the aux is discharged regularly? Does it need to be completely discharged or will 1/2 empty be OK?

D-Jack

If its a deep cycle your using as the second battery, then you should hook up something that will discharge the battery from time to time, such as your stereo, or driving lights etc..
Im guessing You also would have some sort of charging device under your bonnet, which will recharge it whilst driving

Jack, don't completly flatten the battery, doing so will shorten its life. 1/2 flat is ample exercise. BEAM ME UP SCOTTY


Hooroo
Ray