I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

On 11/12/09 5:42 PM, Scott Dickson wrote:
I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?


Do you have a battery switch or isolator, or both? One of those
batteries needs to be kept fully charged and on the starting circuit
only. That should be your #1 battery...unless your motor has a pull
starter. Run accessories off the other battery.

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or one of a half dozen others, you're wasting your time by trying to
*communicate* with me through rec.boats, because, well, you are among
the permanent members of my dumbfoch dumpster. As always, have a nice,
simple-minded day.

On Nov 12, 4:23*pm, H the K wrote:
On 11/12/09 5:42 PM, Scott Dickson wrote:

I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

Do you have a battery switch or isolator, or both? One of those
batteries needs to be kept fully charged and on the starting circuit
only. That should be your #1 battery...unless your motor has a pull
starter. Run accessories off the other battery.

--
If you are flajim, herring, loogy, GC boater, johnson, topbassdog, rob,
or one of a half dozen others, you're wasting your time by trying to
*communicate* with me through rec.boats, because, well, you are among
the permanent members of my dumbfoch dumpster. As always, have a nice,
simple-minded day.

I'm getting the switch to install soon.Thanks for the info.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:42:15 -0800 (PST), Scott Dickson
wrote:

I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

If you're going to have two batteries, I'd get used to calling one
"start" or "cranking" as you say and the other is the "house" battery,
or that which gets used for all else other than cranking.

I think cranking is #1 and house is #2

On Nov 12, 5:36*pm, jps wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:42:15 -0800 (PST), Scott Dickson

wrote:
I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

If you're going to have two batteries, I'd get used to calling one
"start" or "cranking" as you say and the other is the "house" battery,
or that which gets used for all else other than cranking.

I think cranking is #1 and house is #2

Thanks, I was along the same line.

"Scott Dickson" wrote in message
...
I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

What is the difference between a "car" battery and a "cranking" battery? I
believe each are one in the same. If you have a deep cycle and a
car/cranking battery, I would use the car/cranking battery to start the
boat.

I would suggest that you have one battery used for starting all the time and
switch to the other when not running and using accessories. I'm not
completely sure of the application. I would also suggest that you buy a
switch that will allow you to switch to both batteries in case they are both
running low on juice.

http://tinyurl.com/yl52bx4

hth,
JT

On Nov 13, 7:50*am, "JT" wrote:
"Scott Dickson" wrote in message

...

I now have one " cranking " battery, and one regular Car battery in
the boat. Think this is good?
Which should be number one, the " car" battery, or the " cranking "
battery?

What is the difference between a "car" battery and a "cranking" battery? I
believe each are one in the same. If you have a deep cycle and a
car/cranking battery, I would use the car/cranking battery to start the
boat.

I would suggest that you have one battery used for starting all the time and
switch to the other when not running and using accessories. I'm not
completely sure of the application. I would also suggest that you buy a
switch that will allow you to switch to both batteries in case they are both
running low on juice.

http://tinyurl.com/yl52bx4

hth,
JT

The " cranking " battery has more amp output, and longer reserve than
the " car " battery.