SUBPRIME
05-04-2007, 06:20 PM
So I've got 2 battery's in the boat they are the ones that came new with the boat in 05'. I have a pretty tame stereo on the boat, two amps and six speakers. But like everyone else I love blasting some tunes while on the boat!!! I'm getting annoyed because I have to use my portable jump start pack (Best thing I ever bought!!) just about everytime I start my boat!:mad: This is annoying because the battery's are located under the rear bench and I have to move some foamy stuff that's in there for sound damping or some shiz I don't know stereo peps put it in there, anyway it's a pain to move all of it everytime I have to jump start the boat.
I bought a (deep cycle) battery charger and tryed charging the batterys to see if it would help. One battery charged up just fine. The other went like this: I hooked the charger up and it went into "desulfation" mode which the charger book says "If successful , normal charging will resume after the battery is desulfated." The Battery that charged just fine took about 4 hours to charge and the charger gave me a green successful charge notice, this second one took a day and a half. I stopped charging when the charger went into a error mode. I unhooked the charger and set it to "Tester" mode to check the charge and it read at a 100% charged. ???
So I hook the batterys back up to the boat with the switch in the both settings and the electric door works and stereo works everythings great turn the switch to the off position and put the cover back on the boat and while I"m doing this I lower the trip a little with the switch that is at the back of the boat and the things sounds like it is running on a dead battery (I assuming that while the switch is in the off position that only one battery is giving juice to the trip motor?)
The boat started right up with the switch in the "both" position on the next use but I continually have to jumpstart the boat after we listen to the stereo any longer than 30-45 minutes or so and bam not enough juice to crank her over.
2 questions:
1. Do you think I have a bad battery? What's thier life expectancy? What's the best way to check?
2. What would adding a 3rd battery do to help my situation? Has anyone on here gone from 2 to 3 batterys? did it help?
Any other suggestions appreciated, this jumpstarting thing is starting to drive me nuts plus it looks ghetto to have to do that everytime I wanna start my boat.
I bought a (deep cycle) battery charger and tryed charging the batterys to see if it would help. One battery charged up just fine. The other went like this: I hooked the charger up and it went into "desulfation" mode which the charger book says "If successful , normal charging will resume after the battery is desulfated." The Battery that charged just fine took about 4 hours to charge and the charger gave me a green successful charge notice, this second one took a day and a half. I stopped charging when the charger went into a error mode. I unhooked the charger and set it to "Tester" mode to check the charge and it read at a 100% charged. ???
So I hook the batterys back up to the boat with the switch in the both settings and the electric door works and stereo works everythings great turn the switch to the off position and put the cover back on the boat and while I"m doing this I lower the trip a little with the switch that is at the back of the boat and the things sounds like it is running on a dead battery (I assuming that while the switch is in the off position that only one battery is giving juice to the trip motor?)
The boat started right up with the switch in the "both" position on the next use but I continually have to jumpstart the boat after we listen to the stereo any longer than 30-45 minutes or so and bam not enough juice to crank her over.
2 questions:
1. Do you think I have a bad battery? What's thier life expectancy? What's the best way to check?
2. What would adding a 3rd battery do to help my situation? Has anyone on here gone from 2 to 3 batterys? did it help?
Any other suggestions appreciated, this jumpstarting thing is starting to drive me nuts plus it looks ghetto to have to do that everytime I wanna start my boat.