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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | OK....I'm a chem engineer by education, not electrical, so my apologies here. If this winter, before storage, I throw the 2 main switches in the battery compartments of my 2008 Ranger 620 to "OFF", I effectively shut the battery off from any parasitic draws I'd guess.....right ?
Well if I do this....will the batteries still charge ? I store indoors (unheated) but the manager of the place keeps my boat plugged in most of the winter. I have a 4 bank Ranger charger. I have not changed any wiring configurations on the boat from the factory and I am the first owner.
I just spent about 1400 bucks on new Odyssey batteries (4 of them) this past spring and I want them in good condition for years.
Thanks all for the help in advance.
Edited by PSAGuy 11/20/2015 11:41 AM
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| on my charger (dual pro) there are wires from the charger to the different batteries that don't make use of the big wires ! so you should be good ! but make sure that charger can be left plugged_in all the time ( maybe contact ranger) . |
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Location: Lake Elmo, MN | Thanks....I leave it plugged in all the time in summer (at least for 3-5 days at a time, so no issue there I think. I just wanted to be certain current would be able to get by the breakers. |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Your fine. I kill my power everyday when done fishing and charge the batteries with those switches on off all the time. |
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Location: NE Ohio | can you test at home first and see if there is still current going to the batt's after throwing the switch and still plugged in? |
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Location: Waukesha, WI, USA | Been doing it for years. |
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Location: 31 | pklingen - 11/24/2015 3:10 PM
can you test at home first and see if there is still current going to the batt's after throwing the switch and still plugged in?
http://espanol.cabelas.com/product/Battery-Gauges/700417.uts |
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620 Owners.....need some info pls.