Odyssey Batteries

Post by **Chalk** » January 13th, 2005, 8:56 am

Any of you battery experts ever ran across these batteries. They were in production selling to the public and military, and then they quit selling to the public, and now are back selling to the public again. A few guys are running them on another forum, one has three running a 36 volt trolling motorâ€¦.At 15 pounds thatâ€™s a pretty good weight for a battery, price isnâ€™t bad eitherâ€¦ I don't think I would use them as a cranking battery, but for a trolling motor battery, they might be be a good choice...Check'm out....

http://www.batterymart.com/battery.mv?p=ODY-PC680

Post by **wevans** » January 13th, 2005, 9:43 am

To light duty for serious trolling

you would have to move up to the PC1700 in order for it to stand up to the constant drain that a Bass fisher would put on it and that battery weighs in at a little over 60#

Website · Post by **rev** » January 13th, 2005, 10:20 am

I don't know much about the terminology of batteries, but I assume more reserve capacity is better. I don't know how this figure is calculated--that is, what kind or amount of draw will deplet the battery at the stated rate--but the Odyssey battery has only 24 minutes of reserve capacity.

I also assume that if you wire the battery in parrallel, you will multiply the reserve capacity by the number of batteries. You could rig three batteries in parallel, tripling the reserve capacity to 72 minutes on a bank weighing 45 pounds at a cost of $255 dollars. But why? You could buy a Group 27 AGM battery for $150-180, that will weigh somewhere between 50-60 pounds, and will have a reserve capacity in the neighborhood of 180 minutes.

This battery seems like it would have a cool application for a boat like a Gheenoe, where you want to crank a small engine and run a depthfinder or other electronics with minimal weight. I don't know if it will deliver a lighter trolling motor rig, though, without giving up a fair amount of trolling time.

Or am I placing too much importance on reserve capacity?

Post by **wevans** » January 13th, 2005, 10:43 am

This would be the one ta buy

http://www.batterymart.com/battery.mv?p=ODY-PC1700MJT

Except as stated by rev, if you have a canoe or something simular

Post by **Chalk** » January 13th, 2005, 11:05 am

Yep Wevans...A little trip across the internet, resulted in you need to know the battery voltage, Amp hours and Wattage...12 volt battery with 16 ah, pulled by 480 watt trolling motor only deliver 20 minutes....But a 55ah optima only spits out 68 minutes.....Not sure what 24 volts would do to the amp hours, would think it doubles as the voltage in parallel?

Not sure about the reserve Rev.....

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » January 13th, 2005, 11:25 am

60# battery.

Post by **wevans** » January 13th, 2005, 11:34 am

Course this one "on this website anyhow" seems ta be the best buy "if you use it regularly"

http://www.batterymart.com/battery.mv?p=D34M-950

Post by **wevans** » January 13th, 2005, 11:50 am

I like this one even better

http://www.blackjackmotorsports.com/pd_d31m.cfm

Post by **RHTFISH** » January 13th, 2005, 2:10 pm

I just got an Advanced Angler AGM combo style from Cabela's.
It is the heaviest battery for its size I've ever seen. I've got it in a battery box and made some cables so I can use it for backup to
main tolling motor battery and the cranking battery which are on opposite ends of boat.

Post by **Chalk** » January 13th, 2005, 2:12 pm

Let's go ahead and show them the king....110ah

http://www.blackjackmotorsports.com/pd_troll.cfm

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » January 13th, 2005, 2:16 pm

Now thats a monster.

DWilliams · Post by **DWilliams** » January 14th, 2005, 8:39 am

The od. 1700 looks good. I do not have a 20amp charger tho, but checking into this.

I've had a hard time lately with trolling batteries. In the summer using the aerator, bottom machine, gps, loran, and radio, I'll discharge a battery. Completely discharging seems to kill a battery quick.

Post by RC » January 14th, 2005, 1:32 pm

I had the Hawker trolling thunder batteries installed in my hells bay when I bought it in 1999. Used them for starting and trolling motor every since. They quit selling the trolling thunders not long after I got them. THey are just now starting to lose power. Am replacing them with 2 new odyessey of the same size. I don't think I have ever had a boat battery last 6 years before.

Post by **RHTFISH** » January 14th, 2005, 1:42 pm

WOW!

Post by RC » January 14th, 2005, 1:43 pm

Chalk
One thing I forgot to mention about these batteries. Charging is tricky. Some people had serious problems with built in deep cycle chargers. I even heard of some getting hot and melting down. This was with the old trolling thunders. I found if i set my charger on deep cycle/gel cell the batteries would get hot but if i used the starting battery setting everything worked just fine.