Choose an Optima-battery for your boat

Optima-battery to Rolls-battery, making battery choices is hard

Whether you own a fishing-boat, sailing-yacht or house-boat or are upgrading a used-boat, trailer-boat or a power-boat the subject of the marine-battery is going to confront you. The brands all offer good quality products, whether it be Rolls, Surrette, Optima-battery, Exide and others.

It’s a choice between deep-cycle-battery, gel-cell-battery, AGM-battery or a flooded-cell battery. The demands that are now placed on the average boat electrical system have generally outgrown that of older traditional wet-cell battery technology with the equally rapid advances in electrical and electronics systems.

The relatively lower electrical power consumption equipment such as GPS, instrumentation and traditional high demand equipment such as autopilots and radar have now also been eclipsed. Consider an Optima-battery for your boat.

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Power hungry boat demands

The new power thirsty gear list is topped by the AC inverter, which extracts a heavy price in electrical power for the comforts it delivers. Next are the bow thrusters and the hydraulic power packs for the deck winches and auxiliaries, while electric propulsion is now emerging as a viable alternative propulsion system and some systems use battery power.

While some technical developments such as improved high efficiency inverters have eased the strain along with energy efficient lighting, future changes will see the wider implementation of 24 and 36 (42) volt power systems as a way to improve available power. This is something the boat buyer will need to keep up on. Batteries will still be central to the primary DC power system whatever the voltage used for some time to go, even with the advent of fuel cell technology, The basic power balance assessment and capacity calculations have taken on a new importance. Consider an Optima-battery for your boat.

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Making power calculations

The bottom line on power calculations has risen significantly, and consequentially so has the battery power required to support it. The search for a bullet proof and fault tolerant battery bank is as real as ever. The flooded cell lead acid battery has always filled the role and it's position is under siege from technology newcomers, such as those from Optima-battery, with comparison testing being performed under various controlled test conditions between all the battery technology types. The performance claims and counterclaims are often confusing as are the various numbers are worked out, and each successive innovation claims greater cycle abilities and life expectancies than previous. Consider an Optima-battery for your boat. A GEL-CELL-BATTERY IS WELL WORTH CONSIDERING, CLICK HERE AND FIND OUT MORE

Reasons for sealed battery technology

Other motivators are at work besides the hard technical performance figures, and one important recommendation emerged from the coronial enquiry into the disastrous Sydney-Hobart yacht race, and that was that all future yachts in the race should have sealed batteries, and such recommendations will ensure that such batteries are installed in greater numbers. Often people get bogged down on the no maintenance aspect of a battery when this is probably the most minor issue. Consider an Optima-battery for your boat.

BATTERY CHARGING

Once you select the right battery, the next important subject is that of battery charging. The link to the pages on battery charging will help all boat owners.

ALTERNATOR REGULATORS

Once you select the right alternator to charge your new battery, the next important subject is that of improving charging with the voltage regulator. The link to the pages on the boat-regulator will help all boat owners. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE BATTERY-CHARGER and the ALTERNATOR BOAT-REGULATOR CLICK ON THE LINK FOR THE BEST INFORMATION FOR YACHTS and SAIL-BOATS

HIGH-OUTPUT-ALTERNATOR

If your alternator and boat-regulator isnt up to the task then it is time to look at a high-output-alternator. The link to the pages on the high-amp-alternator will help all boat owners with their charging systems design. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE HIGH-OUTPUT-ALTERNATOR CLICK ON THE LINK FOR THE BEST INFORMATION FOR YACHTS and SAIL-BOAT BATTERY CHARGING

HOW SAFE and BULLET PROOF IS YOUR CHARGING SYSTEM?

Probably not very good, and what ever can go wrong often does. You can even up the odds and act like a big ship, and perform a detailed risk assessment and identify all of the things that can go wrong. What then? you fix them and mitigate the risk. Read Part 1 of this 4 Part Series on the charging system risk assessment and improve your power systems reliability.

Click on this link to go to Part 1 of 4 Parts on marine-battery high-amp-alternator charging risk assessment

How did you go with that?Now read Part 2 of this 4 Part Series on the battery charging and starting system risk assessment and improve your electrical power systems reliability. Click on this link to go to Part 2 of 4 Parts on marine-battery high-amp-alternator charging risk assessment

How was that? not as complicated as you think, is it? Now read Part 2 of this 4 Part Series on the battery charging and starting system risk assessment and improve your electrical power systems reliability. Click on this link to go to Part 3 of 4 Parts on marine-battery charging risk assessment

Now for the final part in the seriesNow read Part 4 of this 4 Part Series on the battery charging and starting system risk assessment and improve your electrical power systems reliability. Click on this link to go to Part 4 of 4 Parts on marine-battery charging risk assessment

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