Advice on Batteries

Nobby, as a matter of interest, if you find a battery manufacturer/distributor that comes up with a battery to suit your needs, I would be delighted to be informed. Just in case you think this is a smart *.* post, I am most definitely interested who has such a beast/battery. To date, I have never found a battery that would be able to be charged like you want to do with that Christie Honda device.

Ozi
I am interested in your comments regarding Calcium batteries being unsuitable for deep cycling. Are you suggesting that the Delkor Deep Cycle batteries are not much chop or are you saying that the starting battery range is no good for deep cycling? One of the advantages I can see with a Delkor DC battery is their long shelf life. This would appeal to many 4WDers who only use their vehicles ocassionally.
Regards
Michael

With the charger that you have [100amp cristies] ,any half reasonable brand of battery will suffice,700-900 cca will do the job,just remember that in order to get resonable / maximum life from your batt recharge prior to 11.5 volts, preferably 12.2/5.

I charge our batt in camper trailer [850cca] from12.5 to14.2 in 25/30min per 2nd day running 3 fluros and 40lt engle [chescold on gas + 12vlt extraction fan]. Ford altenator 135amps to main thru Rotronics to 2nd [both 850cca starting batts] thru LARGE 7 pin to to 3rd 850cca in trailer,,system has worked in this form for the last 36mths,no sign of needing any batt replacement,heat in wire ect.

Nobby..I used a 100 ah d/cycle Century brand battery with a similar..repeat similar setup in our camper trailer when we had it ..our then honda 350 with a 6amp charger kept it charged no problems .when traveling it was charged from the car ...your fridge would be using less power than our engel .. We now use an eu10 ..very quiet

Nobby, what Christies says about 10 battery reps in one room is just lies. Batteries today, like everthing else are purpose designed to do a specific job. A competent informed battery person would have the same difficulty answering your question as I am. Battery technology over the last five years has improved at a quantam leap like computer technology. The only battery I *MAY* suggest is the Optima D31T. As long as you do not exceed the designed battery tempreture of 52C when charging with your Christie Generator, it should give you some satisfactory performance and hence life.
http://www.optimabatteries.com.au/tech.htm
You will not find this battery on their website, and will have to e-mail or phone them.
Can you just detail how you actually want to use this setup and how often. Are you going to stop at one place for a week at a time or what?

Hopefully Truckster, thepublican, Axel or Aliases will give you better and more technically competent suggestion to what I have. They are impressive in the wealth of knowledge, education and expertise they like to help and assist others. Suggest you ask them for their recommendations.

Bruce charging at 6 (up to 10)amps with a Honda E350 is a substantial difference to charging at a supposed 100amps. Your E350 Honda is in no way similar to a Christie 12vDC only alternator.

Nobby

Do your self a favour and read the specs on Odyssey batteries. A bit more expensive to buy, but cheaper in the long run. I have one as a second battery and has lasted for over 5 years. It will act as a deep cycle and cranking battery if needed. When my original cranking battery fails in my deisel I will replace it with an Odyssey.

Nobby

Here's the sitehttp://www.odysseyfactory.com/

Nobby
No worries, but I think your supplier has the wrong price list.
ES12V1000 is only $390. Still a bit steep for some.