WHat battery are you using for a dual battery setup?
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WHat battery are you using for a dual battery setup?
The ones i found were to long , which ones are you guys using or what measurements should i be looking for?
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What exactly, if you don't mind me butting in, is the deal with dual batteries? Other than turning the engine over, our trucks don't seem to really need a bunch of extra juice. I know I used my truck as a rolling stereo for yardwork last week for about 6 hours (substantial stereo...not turned up too loud) and it didn't bat an eye when I cranked it.
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I dunno where you are from Subliminal, but winter sucks with one battery, especially if you don't have a place to plug the truck in, like when I lived on campus last year. The grid heater drew the life right out of a bran new battery, so I went with a pair of optimas.
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What exactly, if you don't mind me butting in, is the deal with dual batteries? Other than turning the engine over, our trucks don't seem to really need a bunch of extra juice. I know I used my truck as a rolling stereo for yardwork last week for about 6 hours (substantial stereo...not turned up too loud) and it didn't bat an eye when I cranked it.
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Can't really tell if you are kidding or not, but if your not, you've got some real lifes lessons waiting for you...it'll kick that attitude right out of you. You have appearently not been around long enough for stuff to fail on you. We had a saying on the fire department that went "you can have ten years of experience or you can have 1 year ten times". Life taught me to learn from the experience of others. Try to remember this when you are waiting for a jump from a 16 year old girl, just my not so humble, but very experienced opinion...Mark
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Hey Mark,
I was indeed kidding...hence the winking smiley. Those are there so those of us who communicate over the internet can tell the mood/motive behind posts, whereas usually you can tell by a laugh or a smile.
That being said, I've got one battery on my boat, one in my truck, one on my lawnmower and one on my other two cars. I also grew up in Alaska where the temperatures are pretty **** cold...although I think when my dad bought his 89 W250 new, he put two batteries in it, too...but he had a camper on the back, too...so that might have had something to do with it.
My main reason for questioning is that my truck starts up so damned quick, and my alternator seems to pump out so much juice, it doesn't seem like a second battery would be necessary...I thought maybe there was a justifiable reason for it, outside of just having a backup...
At any rate, as you were.
I was indeed kidding...hence the winking smiley. Those are there so those of us who communicate over the internet can tell the mood/motive behind posts, whereas usually you can tell by a laugh or a smile.
That being said, I've got one battery on my boat, one in my truck, one on my lawnmower and one on my other two cars. I also grew up in Alaska where the temperatures are pretty **** cold...although I think when my dad bought his 89 W250 new, he put two batteries in it, too...but he had a camper on the back, too...so that might have had something to do with it.
My main reason for questioning is that my truck starts up so damned quick, and my alternator seems to pump out so much juice, it doesn't seem like a second battery would be necessary...I thought maybe there was a justifiable reason for it, outside of just having a backup...
At any rate, as you were.
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Hey Mark,
I was indeed kidding...hence the winking smiley. Those are there so those of us who communicate over the internet can tell the mood/motive behind posts, whereas usually you can tell by a laugh or a smile.
That being said, I've got one battery on my boat, one in my truck, one on my lawnmower and one on my other two cars. I also grew up in Alaska where the temperatures are pretty **** cold...although I think when my dad bought his 89 W250 new, he put two batteries in it, too...but he had a camper on the back, too...so that might have had something to do with it.
My main reason for questioning is that my truck starts up so damned quick, and my alternator seems to pump out so much juice, it doesn't seem like a second battery would be necessary...I thought maybe there was a justifiable reason for it, outside of just having a backup...
At any rate, as you were.
I was indeed kidding...hence the winking smiley. Those are there so those of us who communicate over the internet can tell the mood/motive behind posts, whereas usually you can tell by a laugh or a smile.
That being said, I've got one battery on my boat, one in my truck, one on my lawnmower and one on my other two cars. I also grew up in Alaska where the temperatures are pretty **** cold...although I think when my dad bought his 89 W250 new, he put two batteries in it, too...but he had a camper on the back, too...so that might have had something to do with it.
My main reason for questioning is that my truck starts up so damned quick, and my alternator seems to pump out so much juice, it doesn't seem like a second battery would be necessary...I thought maybe there was a justifiable reason for it, outside of just having a backup...
At any rate, as you were.
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Damon seems to be a pretty good natured dude, Mark. I'm sure he meant no ill will behind his humorous sarcasm. I highly doubt it was criticizing or judgmental sarcasm.
Moving right along! My dual battery set up cost the same as 1 31 series battery ( about $150). Not to mention, 31 series batterys are almost impossible to find around me. Napa had to order it for me and they were the only ones that knew what it was when I was calling around for prices in my local area.
To be perfectly honest: I probably don't need it even in Maine. The Utility truck with 1 31 series starts as good or better than the Dually with the 2 65 series. The truck just came like that and I thought it was creative. So I made a new cable and soldered all my new connections on since the PO just used jumpers on the studs that didn't allow load sharing as well as my new 2/O soldered connections do. I should have rigged it with a battery switch so I could select 1, 2 or both but I was really tired of electrical work at the time with other gremlins I was working on, so I buttoned her up. Have 2 selectable batteries is most definitely an advantage. I have no redundancy, only added capacity.
Moving right along! My dual battery set up cost the same as 1 31 series battery ( about $150). Not to mention, 31 series batterys are almost impossible to find around me. Napa had to order it for me and they were the only ones that knew what it was when I was calling around for prices in my local area.
To be perfectly honest: I probably don't need it even in Maine. The Utility truck with 1 31 series starts as good or better than the Dually with the 2 65 series. The truck just came like that and I thought it was creative. So I made a new cable and soldered all my new connections on since the PO just used jumpers on the studs that didn't allow load sharing as well as my new 2/O soldered connections do. I should have rigged it with a battery switch so I could select 1, 2 or both but I was really tired of electrical work at the time with other gremlins I was working on, so I buttoned her up. Have 2 selectable batteries is most definitely an advantage. I have no redundancy, only added capacity.
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I have considered a dual set up too. My truck cranks great until it sits all night in cold weather. If I let the grid heater cycle on and off or wait on the Wait to start light to go off the battery doesn't have the juice to crank it. Guess it could be something with the grid heater so I usually don't wait and just fire it right up. My mud truck doesn't have a grid heater and either has to be plugged in (oil/ block heater) when its cold or jumped off. Most places we mud don't have electricity so I thought about duals on the truck with a converter.