A group 29 12 volt deep cycle Interstate battery I've been using on a 55 lbs thrust trolling motor didn't perform quite so well the other night.
Temps were 35-40 degrees and it only held up 4 1/2 hours. Earlier this summer it lasted 17 hours during one marathon fishing night/day.
Is the colder temps the culprit?? I see the brochure does state that extreme cold battery temps result in an immediate reduction of battery effiency level. Let's see....here it says a fully charged battery at 32 degrees operates at only 65% effiency. Wow!!
Wasn't terrible at a state park beach. Antelope island maybe. I wouldn't recommend it as a beach destination tho. Figured I was there, I'm getting in it.
The water looked and smelled disgusting with hundreds of thousands of birds sh*tting in there. About as gross as the Salton Sea. When I duck hunted there I didn't even want to touch the water.
It's kinda gross with the algae in the summer but I got in it anyway. Wanted to see the increased bouyancy at work. You can kinda tuck yourself into a ball and you'll just float with your head above water. When dry off you look diamond encrusted with the salt.
We went to the flats too. I dipped a tire on the rental car onto it just to say I’ve been there,but it was still pretty soft from winter melt. After seeing some moron in a BMW suv get dragged out of the muck I had no intention of repeating his stupidity.
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A group 29 12 volt deep cycle Interstate battery I've been using on a 55 lbs thrust trolling motor didn't perform quite so well the other night.
Temps were 35-40 degrees and it only held up 4 1/2 hours. Earlier this summer it lasted 17 hours during one marathon fishing night/day.
Is the colder temps the culprit?? I see the brochure does state that extreme cold battery temps result in an immediate reduction of battery effiency level. Let's see....here it says a fully charged battery at 32 degrees operates at only 65% effiency. Wow!!
Anyone else have this problem??
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