Battery choice

Hi Dan

The Twelve Volt Shop has them but I'm not sure about price.

Dan to digress a little, if you are going to use a Trojan in your vehicle as an auxiliary charged through a battery isolator, you will not get the life out of the battery for the money. Trojan is a good battery brand like the large majority of battery brands, provided it is charged and treated correctly. If you are going to charge the Trojan with a solar panel and quality regulator, I would say go for it, but not as an auxiliary battery charged through a battery isolator.
I would suggest something like an Apollo 882 (bottom of page) for approx $125.00 or any other reasonable quality deep cycle battery. You will get better life and performance out of two cheaper deep cycle batteries than one expensive one. From what I remember of the price of a Trojan battery of that capacity they are around $250.00, so approximately double the price of something like the Apollo.

I am thinking to get myself a WAECO mobitronic 8amp/hr 14.1V charger for the battery. Is it a good choice??? I choice Trojan because some of my mates have exprenices with it and they all highly recommended it, I don't know about apollo is it good brand how much is it for a 100amp??

Go to -> www.trojan-battery.com. On the front page they have a country selector which will locate a dealer for you.

I run their 130A/hr battery with a 80 Solar panel and regulator along with a Pirhana dual system. I usually find that combining the solor output and a 30min drive every 2-3 days I keep the battery above 50% full.

Combined with a good quality 3 stage charger when I get home keeps the battery in tip top form. From memory I paid $240 from Turbo batteries in Brendale Qld. They advertised a cheaper price than the distributer in Slacks creek would do.

Like the others said they are more expensive but im just sick of buying crap quality equipment which doesnt last the longhaul.

Cheers,

Glenn.

YipD,
Have a Trojan 100amp Deep Cycle in my dual battery setup and it works well. Don't know how much as the sparkie supplied it when he wired the system.
Cheers, John.

What brands of charger do you guys recommended for the Trojan? my budget is around $100-200.

Regards

Dan