Ladies and Gentlemen SNIPPET my starting battery has given up the ghost. It gave me no warning. One day it worked, the next day it didn't. COMMENT Odyssey BAtteries, an absorbed glass mat (AGM), type battery claims their batteries do not fail catastrophically and gradually loose power giveing plenty of warning before failing. It seems this is a general property of AGM battieries. I am currently planning on using nearly $3000 of Odyssey batteries for the house bank and all three starting batteries on my newbuild MaineCat P-47. Can anyone confirm the failure claim by Odyssey for their batteries? Any other comment or experience with them or other AGM styke batteries good or bad? Gary Hagstrom Building Crackerjack a MaineCat P-47 Iron River, Wisconsin ghagstrom@yahoo.com

Gary Hagstrom <ghagstrom@yahoo.com> writes: >I am currently planning on using nearly $3000 of Odyssey >batteries for the house bank and all three starting batteries on my newbuild >MaineCat P-47. Before you do this, you might want to check out Discover Batteries, in particular the 2 volt L-16 versions. See http://www.discover-energy.com/files/datasheets/EV216A.pdf The problem with the Odyssey is that the largest battery is only 214 Ah. In order to get more Ah you will need to parallel multiple 12 volt batteries, and that is problematic. The EV126 batteries offer 1170 Ah and you'll need just 6 in series (for 12 volts) or 12 in series (for 24 volts). These are also available in 6 volt versions (390 Ah) versions. I used these because the 2 volts were not available when I installed them. Scott Welch "Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

> -----Original Message----- > Before you do this, you might want to check out Discover Batteries, in > particular the 2 volt L-16 versions. See > http://www.discover-energy.com/files/datasheets/EV216A.pdf That's an awesome battery, but instead of his planned $3,000 cost, six of them would be $5,000, and the monsters are 16" high! Kevin