My boat only has 1 battery, so I purchased one of those portable battery booster/jumper. I am wondering where to store it. If I keep it towards the bow, I am wondering about it bouncing around too much, and if I keep it towards the back, It might end up getting wet, so I thought I would ping the group to see what everyone else is doing.
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I have one underneath the starboard bow seat."a what? i can['t] say/spell/pronounce that word..." - wannabewakeboarder
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We installed a second battery ourselves in our first 22i.
Wall Mart 24 series DS $54 (Wall Marts are excellent quality Delcos)
Wall Mart Battery box $3
Cables and misc connections about $20
We didn't run the selector/shut off switch, just simply ran the batteries in Parallel.
We did this because the booster we bought went bad in about a year.
Did the whole job in under an hour.Comment
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evilOne - Do you keep the booster in some sort of plastic or waterproof bag to keep it dry?
Wake Bandits - I have thought about adding a 2nd battery, but not quite ready to do that yet. I have too many other things sucking up money right now. (Wakeboards, waterskis, new mirror for the boat, re-doing my garage so the boat will fit, etc....)Comment
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Originally posted by Wake Bandits View Post
I'm well over 500$ installing 2 additional batteries in the locker under the stereo on the port side. 60ft of 0gauge wire, a new battery switch, batteries, boxes, connectors, fuses, circuit breakers, a new isolater...etc....
I'm at about 8 hours now with probably 30 minutes of work left to do. The price of 0 gauge wire about made me sh1t rings around myself. Ouch.Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?Comment
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I mounted an on-board charger into one of the rear V-Drive lockers.Cursed by a fortune cookie: "Your principles mean more to you than any money or success."Comment
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dogbert - can the onboard charger, also jumpstart the boat if you drain your battery on the water? If so, then that's the way to go.Comment
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