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Date:         Mon, 10 May 2010 17:08:04 -0700
Reply-To:     "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Battery for Aux in my 84 Westy
Comments: To: Jamie Fitterer <fittdog8848@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Jamie Fitterer wrote: > I have been looking to get the AUX battery done. I have looked at > kits and just do not have the time to put towards it before camping > season is over. I have found a local Stereo and electronics store > that has done a few Westies and they use these Batteries > http://www.stingerelectronics.com/products.aspx Wondering if my > knowledgable friends on this list could help me determine the best > battery out of this group to use.

Hard to say. These are most likely rebranded batteries, "Stinger" not being a company big enough to get someone to build a bespoke line of batteries for them. Rating batteries by "5-second bursts" is not very helpful unless one is planning to suck all the power out of the battery in 5 seconds. Slow and steady is how an aux battery is generally used, and that's where your gen-u-wine deep cycle batteries, a la Trojan (and others) come into play. Since the emphasis in the tech literature is on low internal resistance, fast discharge, they are unlikely to have the heavy lead plates of a real deep cycle battery, but rather the thinner lead plates of a general-purpose starter batteries, not unlike what Sears and Walmart sell.

However, they do have flashy labels!

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR


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