Hi,
My boat is a 2011Hunter 39
I am going to change out my house and starting batteries this spring.
Here are my thoughts so please let me know if I am wrong or maybe going down the wrong path.
How I'm thinking about this is that right now my house and start batteries are the flooded type and I want to change to AGM batteries.
If I just change out the flooded type to AGM everything should be OK if my charger has a AGM selection (or I will buy a new smart charger that does).
The batteries I am thinking about getting are the Trojan 6 volt AGM (4) in a series/parallel configuration.
For alternator charging the techs at Trojan said any alternator that puts out 5% to 50% of the banks AH's should be OK.
I don't know if I should somehow protect the alternator from over heating due to high amp draw to charge the new AGM house bank from a low charge.
I am going to add solar onto the boat also this spring and trying to get it all to work is giving me headaches. I am going to try doing as much as I can to try and keep the cost down.
Your thoughts are much appreciated,
Al
My boat is a 2011Hunter 39
I am going to change out my house and starting batteries this spring.
Here are my thoughts so please let me know if I am wrong or maybe going down the wrong path.
How I'm thinking about this is that right now my house and start batteries are the flooded type and I want to change to AGM batteries.
If I just change out the flooded type to AGM everything should be OK if my charger has a AGM selection (or I will buy a new smart charger that does).
The batteries I am thinking about getting are the Trojan 6 volt AGM (4) in a series/parallel configuration.
For alternator charging the techs at Trojan said any alternator that puts out 5% to 50% of the banks AH's should be OK.
I don't know if I should somehow protect the alternator from over heating due to high amp draw to charge the new AGM house bank from a low charge.
I am going to add solar onto the boat also this spring and trying to get it all to work is giving me headaches. I am going to try doing as much as I can to try and keep the cost down.
Your thoughts are much appreciated,
Al