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Old 05-21-2011, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawn68z
I use a car battery for charging all my packs. The question is how big is your car battery?

The battery in my wife's mazda is only 65ah, so you could expect to charge 6-8 batteries before you car wont start!

I prefer to use a Deep Cycle Marine battery, which has a capacity of over 120Ah. I can usually go 2-3 weekends without charging it. Between my son and I, we charge 15 batteries per weekend (15 x 2500, and i run my tire warmers from it too. )

Shawn.
I'm not sure how big my battery is. It's this one http://www.autozone.com/autozone/par...uestid=1855881 . Didn't see any information on what your referring to so I called, the guy said it had 81 minutes of draw time. I said how much current were they using to get that number? He had no other information. Any idea?

***Reserve minutes not draw time
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