11-03-2019, 03:03 AM
Thanks Robert.
I have always removed my batteries from the boat and stored them in the basement over the winter, but this spring I kind of hurt my back lifting them into the boat and down into the battery compartment.
I’m thinking that this winter I will leave them in the boat and keep the on-board charger plugged in to maintain a charge.
In the video Robert attached, the guy said that “if your batteries are the flooded lead acid type the electrolyte level will have to be checked once a month”. I’m not sure that I want to uncover the boat once a month in the winter cold to check the fluid level, but I imagine the fluid could dry up and you could find the battery dry by spring.
Let’s open it up for discussion. What’s everyone else on the forum with boats doing to maintain their batteries during the winter? Remove from the boat, keep on-board charger plugged in, top off the charge once a month, or what?
It would be nice to have Gel batteries, but that could be expensive.
Thanks, Brian
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I have always removed my batteries from the boat and stored them in the basement over the winter, but this spring I kind of hurt my back lifting them into the boat and down into the battery compartment.
I’m thinking that this winter I will leave them in the boat and keep the on-board charger plugged in to maintain a charge.
In the video Robert attached, the guy said that “if your batteries are the flooded lead acid type the electrolyte level will have to be checked once a month”. I’m not sure that I want to uncover the boat once a month in the winter cold to check the fluid level, but I imagine the fluid could dry up and you could find the battery dry by spring.
Let’s open it up for discussion. What’s everyone else on the forum with boats doing to maintain their batteries during the winter? Remove from the boat, keep on-board charger plugged in, top off the charge once a month, or what?
It would be nice to have Gel batteries, but that could be expensive.
Thanks, Brian
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