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Post by so40gtb on Apr 30, 2014 3:50:43 GMT
Has anyone relocated the SO40 starter battery from the port box under the aft berth to a different place? If so, where? I'm contemplating moving mine into the port locker in the aft berth, just around the corner from the battery box, after crafting a support shelf, constraints on movement, etc. This will allow 4 Group 31 house batteries in the port and starboard boxes.
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Post by hoppy on Apr 30, 2014 6:32:29 GMT
I have thought about it, that's all....
Is yours the owners version? On mine starter battery is in the starboard cabin and I have thought of moving it to the locker in that cabin.
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Post by On y va on Apr 30, 2014 14:58:32 GMT
This is on my "to do" list, to move the starter battery into the port locker, closest to the bed. So I can have approx 400Ah in service batteries.
I have a Optima Blue Top 75Ah as starter battery, so I can even fit is sideways if need be. All I am going to have is a standard, plastic battery box, which I will secure by screwing 4 screws into the wood on two sides. And new cables to the engine (not extend the old ones) one size up from the current ones.
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Post by Horacio on May 1, 2014 16:46:41 GMT
For 9 years we sailed a 43DS.
Not exactly sure of similarities\differences with the 40, but we did relocate the starter battery. In our 43 under the floor in the galley was one of the A/C units. we moved a control box to it fwd of the a/c unit and could fit the starter battery in the open space aft of the A/C unit. This opened the space to increase the house bank. Two other modifications we made were:
- Once it was time to replace the house bank batteries, we went with AGM for the house bank
- Added a switch so we could tie the house bank into the starter (easy to do at the time, and cheap insurance)
- Added an amp/hrs meter
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Post by so40gtb on May 4, 2014 3:33:25 GMT
Responding ...
Hoppy, Voyageur is the 2000 "owners version" with the aft cabin to port.
Onyva, thee and me are headed in a similar direction. Voyageur will soon have a quartet of Group 31 AGM batteries for house use, two in each of the port and starboard battery boxes. I'm also looking at a Optima AGM starter battery, since it won't need a containment box and only needs to be strapped in place. The containment box is the main issue with moving the present flooded lead-acid battery into the port locker. With the AGM, I need only to construct a shelf and provide constraint strapping, plus new 3m battery cables.
Horacio, the SO40 doesn't have sufficient space below the floorboards for batteries and I am most reluctant to cut out any part of a stringer to provide a cable pathway from the open space on the inboard aft segment of the settee to the engine area. Taking the cables outboard far enough to keep them dry and avoid stringer notching makes the path longer than that to the port locker.
--Karl
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