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03-16-2009, 09:27 PM
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Location: Bay Ho
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The fastest way to ruin a battery is to let it sit and do nothing.
If you let a lead acid battery sit for long without trickle charging, or charging, it can become sulfated between the plates which short circuits 1 or more cells. So to answer your question: Batteries can destroy themselves in short order if you do not trickle charge them occasionally. BTW. You should be using a 12 Volt 7.5 Amp Battery at minimum. Read this link and you will be an expert.  http://www.batterystuff.com/tutorial_battery.html |
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03-17-2009, 07:42 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Santee
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i have the 787 ci hummingbird w/that same battery same problem 5 hrs is all i got out of it .looks like youll just need a bigger battery thats what i did never had a problem again
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03-17-2009, 09:58 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Richland Oregon
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Your Sonar is drawing more when you have color and GPS units. Also once the battery drops below 11.2 volts or so (on gray scale, color is probably higher) The unit will no longer turn on.
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