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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / May 2007Changing House Batteries
The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current batteries are two 12 v.Trojan's........they are rated at 85 AH at 20 hrs. I'm going to be dry camping at the NASCAR race in Dover so I should change them beforehand. When these batteries were fresh they were sufficient in power for me so an equal replacement would suit me fine but a few more amps would be better. These batteries don't list a size group but are approx. 6 X 10 X 9 in high. I have room for a battery about an 1 1/2 longer......there is plenty of expansion room for with and height. Trojans have a top reputation but are they the best? There is no dealer very near to me and it would be a lot easier to go to Sears and get a pair of good Diehards. Maybe Optima Blue Tops would be an option but they don't look like they have as much reserve power. Any opinions?? Changing looks simple........disconnect the negatives first and then the positive and R&R after cleaning the connectors......any glitches to avoid????? Thanks for any info Trojan now offers their 12 v. J150 super RV battery. Google 'Trojan J150' for the specs and physical dimensions ; i have two of them and they are powerful and long lasting. Excellent for boondocking. Here...see if they will fit in your space : Trojan Deep Cycle 12 Volt Battery (J150): eBatteriesToGo Address:http://ebatteriestogo.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_C I see where "dwk" <dwkdwk@comcast.net> contributed: >The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their age, >they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current batteries are >two 12 v.Trojan's........they are rated at 85 AH at 20 hrs. Consider a pair of 6v golf car batteries in series for more AH. Check dimensions first - they are a bit taller. Will Sill The Curmudgeon of Sill Hill > The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their > age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Thanks for any info A safety hint is in order. Usually you trade in the old batteries when you buy the new ones. This saves you paying a core charge. But turning in old batteries that are still holding a charge is dangerous to all concerned as any short between the positive and negative poles might produce a dangerous spark. To avoid this danger you can remove the batteries and place them side-by-side. First wire all the negative posts together. Then wire all the positive posts together. Then discharge all the batteries at the same time by connecting just one positive post to one negative post with a thick wire. Have some gasoline handy to spray on the batteries in case they seem to be getting very hot. Gasoline evaporates very fast and hence it cools things down fast. Also, it is best to do this inside your RV. Shad O'Shay > > The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their > > age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Really really bad suggestion. So bad I think you are, on purpose, hoping to hurt someone. Shame on you. There is a limit between enjoying an argument with people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your humanity. > > > The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their > > > age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > Shame on you. There is a limit between enjoying an argument with > people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your humanity. Ignore him, he's an a.shole.  SignatureMatt Delete nospam for email "Where did you say we are going again, Dear?" >>>>The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their >>>>age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > > Ignore him, he's an a.shole. You forgot the words "world class". LZ >>>>> The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their >>>>> age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > You forgot the words "world class". > LZ Kinda guy if he was passing you on his bike, it'd be fun to stick a cane in his front spokes and watch him fly through the air <lmao>. Hugh > <Snip> > >>people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your humanity. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > You forgot the words "world class". > LZ World Class a.shole Wrapped in Spandex! That better? ;-) SignatureMatt Delete nospam for email "Where did you say we are going again, Dear?" >> "dwk" <dwk...@comcast.net> wrote in message >> A safety hint is in order. Usually you trade in the old batteries when >> you buy the new ones. This saves you paying a core charge. But turning [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >Shame on you. There is a limit between enjoying an argument with >people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your humanity. One wonders how hard your mama had to drop you on your head to totally remove your sense of humor. That's called tongue-in-cheek dry humor. Get a clue, fella. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com Cleveland, Occupied TN If stupidity hurt then they'd be Morphine-izing the water supply. snipped > One wonders how hard your mama had to drop you on your head to totally remove your > sense of humor. That's called tongue-in-cheek dry humor. Get a clue, fella. > > John Not when it's this "Shad" a.shole. Just filter the bastard. Hugh > >> "dwk" <dwk...@comcast.net> wrote in message > >> A safety hint is in order. Usually you trade in the old batteries when [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Sorry but I don't see it that way, John. You are reading Shad's 'advice' with the knowledge of the taunting that has been the feature of other threads. There is nothing in this thread that would lead anyone to believe it is anything but advice. Criminally dangerous advice since there are people out there who don't understand electricity and might take it as good advice and be hurt. Should somone actually follow the advice, Shad could be held criminally responsible. Certainly he would lose a lot in any civil suit. Not a hypocrite, Shad. Just concerned that you are, perhaps inadvertantly, taking your byplay with other folks on this group and advocating a truly dangerous act. Burning a RV might have been your dream but exploding batteries blinding people would be the result of your advise should anyone follow it. Did you really mean to invite that type of accident to people who are innocent of your interplay with some RVers???? I would hope not. >> >> Shad O'Shay- Hide quoted text - >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >'advice' with the knowledge of the taunting that has been the feature >of other threads. I have no idea who this Shad character is and have seen none of his posts before. >There is nothing in this thread that would lead anyone to believe it >is anything but advice. Criminally dangerous advice since there are >people out there who don't understand electricity and might take it as >good advice and be hurt. Should somone actually follow the advice, >Shad could be held criminally responsible. Certainly he would lose a >lot in any civil suit. You're kidding, right? Are you so totally bereft of both common sense and a sense of humor that you can't tell that "advice" to parallel batteries, short them out and then cool them with gasoline is anything other than tongue-in-cheek humor? If that's the case then I pity anyone who has to be around you. It must be an excruciating experience. As for anyone getting hurt, if there really is someone who would actually take that as advice then I pray that he wins the Darwin award, for he certainly deserves it. I pray that he wins the award BEFORE he reproduces. John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com Cleveland, Occupied TN WARNING: Do not use this hair dryer in the shower! snipped > You're kidding, right? Are you so totally bereft of both common sense and a sense of > humor that you can't tell that "advice" to parallel batteries, short them out and [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > John Stuff it John. This biker wannabe is an a.shole of the first degree. He apparently has a grudge against rvr's and his posts need to be filtered. It would be interesting to find out if it really isn't *a.s in disguise. In any case Sh** means to injure us. Hugh >snipped >> You're kidding, right? Are you so totally bereft of both common sense and a sense of [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >In any case Sh** means to injure us. >Hugh Oh Gawd, I had forgotten all about *a.s. You had to bring up that idiot. I bet it is him, the styles are so parallel. >>> >> Shad O'Shay- Hide quoted text - >>> [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >then cool them with gasoline is anything other than tongue-in-cheek >humor? It was _humor_?? *HUMOR*???? Oh DAMN!!!!!!!! I spent most of yesterday pulling the due-for-replacement batteries out of the whole-building UPS, and setting them up for safety treatment on the back lot. I've even got the wiring harness all built -- nice 400k c.m. stranded cable. I even had a a videographer lined up to tape the entire proceedings, for a safety training campaign. The only thing holding up the project was making arrangements for Mr. O'Shay to _personally_ demonstrate his techniques. And now you have the _nerve_ to say it was 'just' humor? Sheesh! Getting Shad to demonstrate the technique seemed like a reasonable way to 'extinguish' several issues with the whole matter. :) >>> >> Shad O'Shay- Hide quoted text - >>> [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >John >--- John, Shad has been harassing this forum for 2-3 months with totally ridiculous accusations of RVers and other subjects. He babbles to see his posts responded to and for no other reason. Remember God put limits on man's intellect. He put NO such lower boundary on man's stupidity! Shad rests confortably in my twit filter along with da oz. Dean >John, Shad has been harassing this forum for 2-3 months with totally >ridiculous accusations of RVers and other subjects. He babbles to see [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Dean OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... When I detect even the faintest hint of twit-ism, that person goes in the filter. I probably filtered him without even noticing the name. Looking at my first post I see that I was replying to someone who popped off to the fish. I didn't see the fish's post. Moral of that story is, if folks wouldn't respond to twits in the first place.... John --- John De Armond See my website for my current email address http://www.neon-john.com Cleveland, Occupied TN Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy? > OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... Hey, Gar... I think he's talking to you...? David "The Hamster" Malone >> OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... > > Hey, Gar... I think he's talking to you...? > > David "The Hamster" Malone That's the height of discrimination.. I've lived with it all my life... [Well, actually, since you hung it on me] A damn Shad pisses off ol NJ so he "plonks" all posters with a 'garbage fish' name.. Wunner what Jerry Falwell would of thought of a guy hike that?? SignatureOle Gar, in the 'lil trailer, under the bridge, down by the river. http://coltonmotorexpress.blogspot.com/ > Wunner what Jerry Falwell would of thought of > a guy hike that?? Judging by his shape, I doubt very much that ol' Jerry ever went on a hike.... David "The Hamster" Malone On May 16, 8:14 am, David The Hamster Malone <mal...@ca.ibm.com> wrote: > > Wunner what Jerry Falwell would of thought of > > a guy hike that?? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > David "The Hamster" Malone Yeah, looks like he had sloth, gluttony, pride, and greed pretty well covered...no time for hiking :) >>> OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Wunner what Jerry Falwell would of thought of a guy hike that?? Are you related to my daughter's Geography teacher? Guy by the name of "Pike"? >>>> OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >Are you related to my daughter's Geography teacher? >Guy by the name of "Pike"? I hope his first name Wasn't Wally. >>>> OK, that explains it. Anyone with the name of a garbage fish... >>> Hey, Gar... I think he's talking to you...? [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Are you related to my daughter's Geography teacher? > Guy by the name of "Pike"? I know him but we're not related... Thank heavens, Pike is so full of rubbish it's not funny... I bet NJ will hunt him down and "plonk" him.. SignatureOle Gar, in the 'lil trailer, under the bridge, down by the river. http://coltonmotorexpress.blogspot.com/ >> > The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing >> > their [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your > humanity. Several people have threatened to run over and kill cyclists with their RVs on purpose (in alt.rv). They laugh and brag about "pancaking" and "road kill. and ear drum-bursting high decibel horns" One w.nker even assigns points - the farther you can knock a cyclist off the road the higher your points. And not one single solitary person has said. "Enough already, that's not funny." So, when I turn the tables with a suggestion that could lead to an RV burning up (Glory!!!), what happens? Oh horrors! I'm some kind of an inhuman monster. Can you say hypocrite? But, then again, thank you for showing how right I've been about homicidal maniac, moron RVers. Bunch of freakin' crybaby bullies! Shad O'Shay Man, I'm glad the Shad filter works. >>> The house batteries in my six year old diesel pusher are showing their >>> age, they just don't hold a charge like they used to. My current [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > Shame on you. There is a limit between enjoying an argument with > people and attempting to hurt someone. One wonders about your humanity. Signaturetarget of diversity victim of affirmative action refugee from the war on poverty minimized by political correctness |
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