Lee,
My wife's Chaparral has a large V-8 engine. The battery pack turned that  
over with no trouble. Get rid of the deep cycle battery. They don't appreciate  
sudden deep loads. Also, you might want to install a solar panel controller  
which only allows power to go in one direction. Without it, on cloudy days a  
solar panel will discharge your battery. It also prevents the panels from over  
charging the batteries. Capt. Keller installed one a few years ago and hasn't  
had any problems since.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 11/28/2008 11:14:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
LKUHN at cnmc.org writes:


Rummy and Tom,

My motor battery is deep cell instead of a  starter battery.  Are you sure a
battery pack will start it?   I've been told that it won't, but I don't know
why.

Next motor I get  will definitely have an easier means of manually starting
the  engine.

Lee


R22RumRunner wrote:

> 
> Forget the  generator, just pull start the motor or use a battery pack to  
>  jump start it. Generators weigh to much to lug around.
>  
>  Rummy
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/27/2008  12:25:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> tjhogarty at gmail.com  writes:
> 
> 
> So  generator hooked to battery,  battery to motor to avoid diode fry.  
> Will
> motor start  when battery sufficiently charged or can it start right  away? 
>  I
> can jump start my car with another battery hooked to it,   without waiting
> for
> the battery to charge.  Do the small  generators  have the starting power
> of a
> fresh 12  volt  battery?
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
>  R22RumRunner wrote:
>> 
>>  Tom,
>> Motors  with electric start also have charging diodes which must  be
>>  hooked 
>> up 
>> to a battery. If no battery is connected,  you  will fry the diodes in the 
 
>> charging  loop.
>>   
>> Rummy
>>   
>>  
>> In a message dated  11/27/2008 11:53:19  A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
>>  tjhogarty at gmail.com  writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Can  you start the   motor with a small generator as the electric source?  
>>  Directly,  without just using it to charge the  battery?
>>  Tom
>>  
>> 
>> Leland wrote:
>>>  
>>> I seem to ask  the  same question around this time  every year and I hate
>>>  to
>>> beat a  dead  horse, but I am about ready to start beating  my  dead
>>> battery.
>>> 
>>>  I have  two  batteries and two solar panels.  
>>>  
>>> The  cabin  battery is for everything but the motor  and has both  solar
>>> panels  attached to it.   For three years it has  been fully charged,
>>>   although it is rare that it operates  much aside from my depth/fish  
>>> finder.
>>> 
>>>  The motor  battery is only for the motor and is  hard-wired to   the
>>> motor--it
>>> gets charged by the motor.   All  three  years it has lost its charge
>>>  during
>>> the  winter.  It is also  connected to  the cabin battery.  Last year 
>>> there
>>> was  a charge  coming from the cabin battery to the  motor battery, but  I
>>> suspect that  it is too low to keep the  motor  battery charged.
>>> 
>>> I haven't  checked  the  batteries' charges yet nor have I
>>>  cleaned/checked
>>> the   connections, but I certainly  will.
>>> 
>>> I own a trickle  charger   that connects to a 110 outlet and I own an
>>>  AC/DC
>>>  convertor.
>>>  
>>>  I think my new marina only has 220  electrical and I haven't yet  
>>> purchased
>>> an expensive  220 cord nor  have I had a need to do  so.
>>> 
>>>   1.  Should I re-run the solar panels so that one  charges the   motor
>>> battery
>>> and one charges the cabin  battery?   I  assume there is no danger with
>>>  the
>>> motor battery being  hard-wired to  the  motor.  I don't want to do this
>>> if
>>>   one solar panel won't be  strong enough to keep the motor battery  
>>> charged
>>> or if I will risk not  being  able to keep the cabin  battery charged
>>>  with
>>> only one solar panel  connected to it  instead  of two.
>>> 
>>> 2.  Should I break  down   and buy a 220 cord and use my AC/DC converter
>>>  and
>>>  trickle charger to  charge the motor  battery?  Any dangers to the 
>>> trickle
>>>  charger,  converter, or battery?
>>>  
>>>  3.  Should I buy one of those  rechargeable jumping  battery  panels to
>>> start
>>> the motor when the    battery is dead?  I was thinking about getting one
>>>   for
>>> my  motorcycle anyway.  I hate it when I want to  go  for a ride or a 
>>> sail
>>> and have to  wait for the trickle  charger to do its thing.
>>>   
>>> 4.  Any other  recommendations?
>>>  
>>> Thanks for your  advice.   Just want to make  sure the electrical juice
>>> is
>>> worth  the   economic squeeze.
>>> 
>>>  Lee
>>> 1986 Rhodes22   At  Ease
>>>  Kent Island, MD
>>> 
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