Battery box

[Waunaboat]

Does anybody have a good battery box design for a ruddertwin?  I am thinking of something with two of these batteries in mind.  Also, how does one go about recharging this type of battery.

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[RICHARD A. WHITE]

You will want a battery with 10 amp hour rating…. usually can be found at Tractor Supply, or similar, as electric fence batteries…And if it says rechargeable, I use the battery tenders to keep them charged..

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[Waunaboat]

something such as this?

"Outboards seem to multiply exponentially..........I find that for every finished project, there are two more waiting to be completed."

[Waunaboat]

Is there a particular advantage to getting a higher amp/hour battery?  I wonder because I was able to keep my ruddertwin running for around 10 minutes until the battery, which was the 4.5 amp/hr battery in the picture, started to cut out because of the lower battery charge.  I believe that the battery may have also been drained from a lot of test stand use, and that compounded with a possible lower charge to begin with when I got it could have resulted in the low run time I got out of it.

"Outboards seem to multiply exponentially..........I find that for every finished project, there are two more waiting to be completed."

[Tubs]

 

Box is just 1 by screwed together with dry wall screw. Handel is from a home improvement store. Need to pre. drill holes. On-off-on toggle switch. The lanyard was for some youngsters I was going to let run a Speedster. This is the charger I use. Came with a 2 wire plug that I have on all my motors and the battery box. Can only charge one battery at a time and the switch must be on, on the battery your charging. I believe the charging rates I have on the charger are from the manual. Used MC-1 chargers are on eBay.  Search for Motorcycle, ATV, Lawn Tractor battery charger if you want something new.   

A "Boathouse Repair" is one that done without having tools or the skills to do it properly.

[RICHARD A. WHITE]

To answer your question:

An amp-hour (Ah) rating on a battery <mark class=”QVRyCf”>indicates its energy storage capacity, specifically the amount of current a battery can deliver over a period of time</mark>. A higher amp-hour rating means the battery can power a device for a longer duration before needing to be recharged. 

 

So I read that as meaning a high amp hour battery, can store more juice, thereby lasting longer.

 

Hope this helps…

 

Richard

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