Yahoo Message Number: 109210 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109210)
Quick question. Have a 2005 Inspire and have only replace the batteries once. I think my house batteries are ok. Would like opinions on best chassis battery to buy. Like the AGMs - no maintence.
Thanks for any input.
Yahoo Message Number: 109212 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109212)
An AGM is certainly the most maintenance free way to go. However its cost is about three times the cost of a flooded lead acid battery.
My original AGM dies on me last spring. Due to cost savings i replaced mine with a flooded battery from Sam's.
It is working fine, I have only added water to it one time so far.
RJ
2005 Inspire #51264
Yahoo Message Number: 109214 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109214)
Amen!
Lee (leozbrowski@... (leozbrowski@...)) VP Publications, CCI
2007 Country Coach Intrigue 12153
CAT C-13
Yahoo Message Number: 109215 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109215)
Check Odyssey. Expensive but the best I have used and a great warranty.
2005 Intrigue Suite Sensation #11890 Cummins 400 ISL
Yahoo Message Number: 109216 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109216)
5-6 years ago, another CC owner (Sorry, forget who it was:)!), answered my question about 8D starting batteries. He said he had found that CAT had an 8D with the highest CCA ratings of any battery he could find.
I looked a bit, and sure enough that was still true when I replaced ours.
Again this was 5-6 years ago. It had 1500 CCA, and was Maintenance Free. It out gasses very minimally, so little, that I've only cleaned the posts one time in the 5-6 years it's been installed. (And frankly they did not really need it.)
Has worked well for me.
That being said, when this does need replacement. I'll probably go with an AGM. This way I can close off the bottom of the compartment from the dust and moisture that can work it's way in from the bottom cage wire:)! (More of a convince from a maintenance point of view, as now I do a yearly or so major heavy brushing and vacuuming of the dust out of the full compartment area. And also because when the House X's 4 L16 Lifelines need replacement, I'll shift to lithium. Weight savings, faster recharge, longer life cycles. But, they like a protected heat range to live well, so closing off the compartment is a plus. No outgassing from AGM chassis, would allow this to be pretty much an air tight compartment. And I'll also either add heating pads, or share a compartment heat duct with his compartment, to support a temperature range control of this compartment.)
Might take a look at the CAT, it's treated us well, and was not too much of a premium cost to obtain Maintenance Free (I did open the caps one time in these 5-6 years, and sure added water, but they really did not need any, it was more of a dribble into each cell:))!
Best of luck to you,
Smitty
04 Allure 31017
Yahoo Message Number: 109221 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/109221)
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