11-03-2019, 02:58 PM
Very timely post. I spent several hours yesterday putting the Tin-Can away for the winter.
Since I only have one battery, and my boat is stored in a closed storage unit (it gets cold but is dry) I remove my one battery, set it on a piece of plywood (never set a battery down on bare pavement) and hook it to a Trickle Charger. Sufficient to maintain charge and prevent freezing. Mine is a maintenance free marine deep cycle battery, so can't check the water level, but I do disconnect it from the trickle charger once a month and put my DMM across the terminals to check the voltage. Long as it stays between 10.5 and 12.5 VDC, it's good.
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Since I only have one battery, and my boat is stored in a closed storage unit (it gets cold but is dry) I remove my one battery, set it on a piece of plywood (never set a battery down on bare pavement) and hook it to a Trickle Charger. Sufficient to maintain charge and prevent freezing. Mine is a maintenance free marine deep cycle battery, so can't check the water level, but I do disconnect it from the trickle charger once a month and put my DMM across the terminals to check the voltage. Long as it stays between 10.5 and 12.5 VDC, it's good.
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Or so it says on my license plate holder
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