Camper Battery Selection
#1
Posted 03 October 2010 - 08:18 PM
I'll be doing mostly boondocking, but weight, size and money are an issue. I plan on installing it next to the water tank. I also plan to charge the battery from my truck alternator using the 12v feed wire (powering the camper when the truck is running) and a SurePower 1314 battery separator.
Does anybody have any recommendations for battery selection?
2003 Tundra TRD 4WD & a 2007 Palomino Bronco 800 to be driven down the PanAm during 2011.
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#2
Posted 03 October 2010 - 08:39 PM
#3
Posted 03 October 2010 - 09:02 PM
I would have probably gone with 2 Trojan 6 volts if my battery boxes had the room, but they are a bit taller if I recall and didn't fit well.
Best price I could find a few years ago was at CostCo, but they are still spendy. There may be 'better' solutions out there but I like the abuse these Optimas put up with.
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#4
Posted 03 October 2010 - 09:53 PM
The Sears Die Hard Platinum P-4 came out on top of all the others. I put a pair of Platinum's in the truck last year, and a new pair in the camper a couple months back. Don't know how long they'll hold up, but have got to be better than the old wet deep cycle marine batteries I had to replace after only 2 years.
I'm kind of hard on my batteries with a 1.5 KW inverter in the camper, a compressor that draws 100 amps under load, a ham radio amplifier that draws over 100 amps, and a Warn 12000lb winch that sucks down a few amps when working hard.. We'll see how long these Die Hard's last
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#5
Posted 03 October 2010 - 11:55 PM
#6
Posted 04 October 2010 - 01:07 AM
http://www.dekabatte...s/base/0139.pdf
#7
Posted 04 October 2010 - 02:42 PM
#8
Posted 04 October 2010 - 03:12 PM
If you can spend a bit more AGM for sure. I'd call some battery distributors and see if they are having any close outs, when I was looking for my batteries I managed to find some 6V 210amp hour batteries closing out for $75/ea (normally ~$225) so I have two of those in series. If I was going to quickly grab a single battery on very short notice I'd go with sears platinum probably just because its easy to find.
With AGM/gel batteries don't ignore the charge profiles recommended by the manufacturer either.
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#9
Posted 04 October 2010 - 04:46 PM
Because of battery placement I've decided to go AGM. Based on specs I'm going with the best Sears Diehard Platinum 31M. Finding out that Sears Diehard Platinum = Odyssey sure helped. They're made by the same factory.
I'll probably replace the truck battery with a DieHard Platinum while I'm at it.
2003 Tundra TRD 4WD & a 2007 Palomino Bronco 800 to be driven down the PanAm during 2011.
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#10
Posted 04 October 2010 - 06:01 PM
I'll probably replace the truck battery with a DieHard Platinum while I'm at it.
Looks like you have a Tundra, FWIW they don't make a group 27f Platinum that fits the Tundra yet. They can put a different size in but they will have to rig it to work. Just a heads up.
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