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Whats everyone using for the enclosed trailer battery thats used for the winch and elec tongue jack... I plan on charging with a solar panel using a battery tender controller . So don't think I really need anything that is really that expensive.

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Posts: 40 | Location: Flint, MI | Registered: October 24, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I use a Sears Platinum that came out of my race car after 8 years. Just about any full size battery will do fine.



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Posts: 3145 | Location: KIEFER, OK. | Registered: August 17, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Same here - Optima finally ran out of oats to crank high compression BBC but it works just fine for lights, radio and winch in the trailer. I also wired it so that going down the road it's getting a charge from the tow vehicle.


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Last Summer I went to a 16 volt battery system and put my old optima to work on my trailer. batteries do not last forever and would rather have trailer battery fail than race car battery.


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Posts: 4282 | Location: United States of Texas | Registered: April 02, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I did the same as the others have mentioned. I had a optima go bad on a hot day at the track. When I replaced it, I put the old one in the trailer. It's been fine for a couple years now. It charges as I drive down the road.
 
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My trailer came with a Diehard deep cycle battery when I bought it. It was in a battery box on the tongue and the battery was submerged in water! I lost track of many years old it is but last time I checked it with a hydrometer 1 cell was completely dead. It still winches the car in just as good as it ever did. I throw a charger on it once in a while when I think of it but I've never had it even slow the winch down. How it still keeps going is beyond me.
 
Posts: 1572 | Location: E TN | Registered: February 13, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Thx everyone

Anyone ever try using a 8 Volt Golf Cart Battery? I have to replace them in my cart and a few of the batteries still hold charge.
 
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Over voltage, such as using a 16v battery in a 12v system doesn't seem to be a problem but I would be concerned about under voltage. But if you do it report back how it worked.

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2 in series would be 16.charging would be a little trouble


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Posts: 1468 | Location: texas | Registered: February 17, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Three years + with the same inexpensive Wally World 12 volt and never a problem, but I keep it on a tender.

If, and when the 16 in the car starts to have an issue cranking the engine, I'll probably stick it in the trailer box.

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