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• Re: Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:16:20 -0500
  The seat was not the problem. The depth of the box was not the same as the passenger side. Have you put a Group...
• tiico engine ?
  Historical mailing list - dunks
  Sun, 7 Apr 2002 16:34:20 -0400
  ...also the engine just started to cycle at idle. gets down to really low = rpm's before surging back up. any help would be...
• Re: Calculate fuel consumption when idling?
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:40:35 -0800
  ...a 5.8% duty cycle at idle! yeah, i know, not really relevant. :( -- John Bange '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
• Re: Friday: New VW Engine--it's Miller (cycle) time
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:04:15 +0000
  ...push-for-cleaner-cars > > > > > > > > > And didn't Mazda sell a Miller cycle engine in a couple of models way > > back > > > in the nineties? > > > > > > Alistair...
• Re: Deep Cycle Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:16:40 -0700
  ...I was referring to lead acid, true > deep cycle batteries, which cannot be properly, and fully charged, with a > car alternator. I would defer...
• Optima d750-S vs. d750-U
  Historical mailing list - Chris Paquette
  Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:15:01 -0700
  ...There is a comparison chart of Optima deep-cycle batteries at... http://www.dcbattery.com/optima_yellow.html ... and I think the only difference...
• Re: [retitled thread] Odyessy batteries from GoWesty, other deep cycle batteries
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Lincoln
  Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:57:19 -0400
  ...is what you would be doing > with the more expensive deep cycle battery. > > That's the approach I've taken over the years with...
• will deep cycle battery fit?
  Historical mailing list - David E Most
  Thu, 15 May 1997 11:42:35 -0400
  I know that the group 24 and group 27 marine batteries are taller than the usual battery under the driver's seat (aux. batter...
• Electrial questions...
  Historical mailing list - William Carden
  Sun, 24 May 1998 15:17:35 -0400
  ...be the best type of battery for the auxiliary, marine deep cycle, or a car type battery? And would you know what size? Thanks...
• Re: Second Battery Question
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:22:31 -0700
  ...Mark Harmon Seaver wrote: > > > Group 41 batteries fit fine as that is the stock size. > > Who sells a group 41 deep-cycle? > > -- > Harmon Seaver...
• Re: Pure Sinewave Inverter
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:15:57 -0800
  ...with two 6 volt golf cart batteries by Roll Surrette (true deep cycles...) ... totaling 225 amp hours. Mark, can you provide a link to...
• Re: Vitrifrigo: two corrections to my earlier post
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Tue, 4 Oct 2011 05:29:31 -0700
  ...I make a point of saying "Trojan 130 A/h deep cycle battery" when discussing my van's house battery, but because I started...
• Re: Fuel Pump Ground Location?
  Historical mailing list - zzyzx
  Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:49:56 -0700
  ...The fuel pump has no prime cycle but is working during starting/cranking cycle and can run the engine now if manually primed. Given...
• Re: Daily First Start Hard
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 20 May 2003 20:32:00 -0700
  ...It used to be that I'd have to give it > one > 30 second (or so) cycle, then wait a minute, then give it...
• Re: westy auxillary battery
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 6 Feb 1995 10:23:22 -0800 (PST)
  ...The bus is 6V, and I wanna run a 12V deep cycle for the fridge and any other stuff I decide to put in...
• Re: deep cycle btry: when to stop charging?
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:06:31 -0400
  ...Bloss wrote: > > Just commandeered a deep cycle battery from our boat with which we > normally run the trolling motor. The motor has a little...
• Re: solar panels .. article in magazine
  Historical mailing list - Tom Cullen
  Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:20:55 -0700
  ...Have two 55 watt Siemens panels, connected to a "solar array regulator" which in turn charges my two deep cycle batteries. It provides enough...
• Re: Deep cycle batteries on sale at Canadian tire
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:12:25 -0700
  ...UALBERTA.CA> wrote: > >> I was thinking to get a real deep cycle this time. > > I forgot to mention that I have been told that...
• I've just been given a couple of AGM gc-2 batteries.
  Historical mailing list - Taeke Takeon
  Sat, 10 May 2008 21:49:12 -0400
  ...I just wonder if they charge for as many cycles as flooded cell golf cart batteries. They are specced for deeper cycles, much greater...
• 88 Westy, Best Offer
  Historical mailing list - Tieitup
  Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:51:53 -0500
  ...the snarling older men get pissy sometimes, ha kidding. Have a wonderful rest of your day Adam ORN: Cycled 2 hours, 3 miles tonight ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
• Cycle rack picture
  Historical mailing list - Harley Thomas
  Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:51:16 +-200
  ------ =_NextPart_000_01BB8F57.113A9800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry folks. I sent the picture file incorrectly, so...
• Electrial questions...
  Historical mailing list - William Carden
  Sun, 24 May 1998 10:22:00 -0400
  ...be the best type of battery for the auxiliary, marine deep cycle, or a car type battery? And would you know what size? Thanks...
• High idle after warm up
  Historical mailing list - J. Naser Motlagh
  Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:14:43 -0500
  ...However, after it is warmed up my idle shoots up to 2000 rpms, then it cycles between 1900 and 2100 in about 3 second...
• Re: Fireworks for the Fourth-in my engine bay
  Historical mailing list - James Felder
  Sun, 3 Jul 2011 14:24:24 -0500
  I did not cycle the switch but a few times... Didn't know to. Once I swapped out the injectors for known good ones...
• Re: Deep Cycle Batteries
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:37:15 -0700
  ...More info on deep cycle hybrids, true deep cycles etc: http://www.windsun.com/Batteries/Battery_FAQ.htm#Major%20Battery%20Types Cheers, Neil. -- Neil...
• Re: PS Pump switch high idle question
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:12:25 -0800
  ...Thanks Alistair > On Jan 3, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > > The increase in duty cycle effectively opens the...
• Re: Aux. Battery: Two Group 1 6 Volt "Commercial" Batteries?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:36:27 -0500
  ...Two Group 1 6 Volt "Commercial" Batteries? I realize these aren't deep cycle batteries, but at Cold Cranking Amps - 625 Reserve Capacity - 160...
• Re: regarding head gasket failures on water cooled engines....
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:05:17 -0500
  ...check the torque of the bolts after a couple of heat cycles in a newly rebuilt engine. Your gonna find out a couple of...
• Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:12:11 -0500
  ...They don't even bother to rate the flooded batteries beyond 60% discharge where they're rated at 700 cycles. They say that 80...
• Re: Optima Battery
  Historical mailing list - Ian Allan
  Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:37:38 -0500
  ...I cannot envision a circumstance that a deep cycle battery would out perform a standard starting battery in terms of events leading to catastrophic...
• Re: Westy large battery capacity options
  Historical mailing list - Warren Chapman
  Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:15:54 -0400
  ...But this would be true for a stand alone big 100AH battery also, wouldn't it? (I've read elsewhere that deep cycles have...
• Building a vented enclosed battery box
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hunter
  Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:51:58 EDT
  I would like to hear from someone who has used the Trojan T-105 deep cycle batteries as to how they built and vented...
• Re: Clean my Dusty Caps
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:24:58 -0800
  ...I'd run it 5 cycles empty, then never do it again. Too much risk, totally unnecessary risk. -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List...
• Re: Optima Deep Cycles
  Historical mailing list - Steven Johnson
  Wed, 18 Aug 1999 05:50:40 -0700
  ...my question in the archives, so... > >Is there an Optima deep-cycle battery that will fit under the driver's seat >AND not require...
• Re: fan switch or sensor
  Historical mailing list - Mark Tuovinen
  Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:03:07 -0700
  ...Whereas the vanagon will pull air over the radiator but that air doesn't get over the engine nor does the coolant cycle. What...
• Re: AC Controls
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Sat, 17 May 2008 23:23:05 -0700
  ...the exceptionally rare air-cooled 2.1 six-cycle engine! aren't the six cycles something like intake-compression-combustion-exhaust-depression-acceptance? -- John...
• Re: Auxiliary Battery
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:09:51 -0400
  >But do you really need a deep cycle battery? Yes. I have an electric fridge in my Westy and I like to keep my...
• Re: Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:07:27 -0800
  ...Deep cycles have their advantages and disadvantages. If you have some special need that requires you to frequently run the aux battery way down...
• Re: Golf Cart Batteries
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:16:36 -0500
  ...True deep cycles have thicker solid plates. Mike Dennis Haynes wrote: > How are you defining a deep cycle battery so that the GC-2...
• Re: Another Update: Only 13V from Alternator
  Historical mailing list - Rocket J Squirrel
  Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:45:07 -0800
  ...The voltage was initially set higher than stock as deep cycle batteries benefit from a hotter float charge than the stock regulator puts out...
• Re: Diesels on NPR this morning
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sat, 15 May 2004 13:10:43 -0400
  ...The danger is that we've suddenly (over the last few centuries) started adding more carbon to that cycle. To use an oversimplified analogy...
• Re: deep cycle: best place to put? best size?
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:17:48 -0600
  ...This gets 88 amp-hours of deep cycle power. This was beat to death last year and nobody could find a setup with more...
• Re: Fridge question ---(Sorry)
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 8 May 2000 15:15:43 -0400
  ...Dometic also recommend to tip the reefer to right, left, front, back anytime before reinstalling -- they say this will ensure that the cycle starts...
• Lowest voltage to stop using fridge
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:04:05 -0400
  ...What's the recommended lowest voltage I should allow on a deep cycle before turning off the fridge? Thanks, Bryan
• AC in a vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:36:29 EDT
  ...considering purchasing large solar panels to power a second 12 volt deep-cycle battery that would run a 1500 watt inverter. Any thoughts? David
• Speaking of spare batteries....which one to buy?
  Historical mailing list - Jason Denton
  Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:21:17 EST
  ...Should I buy a generic marine deep cycle battery or one of these Optima? batteries which some posts have spoken of? Thanks, Jason
• Improving On Engine Lubrication
  Historical mailing list - samc
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 10:35:39 -0400
  A fellow I know asked the other day if I had ever heard of adding 2 cycle engine oil into every engine oil change...
• Battery Dimensions
  Historical mailing list - Ed
  Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:29:07 -0700
  ...When I look at deep cycle batteries all I am finding is� group 24, 27 and 29 all of which are too tall to...
• Re: Motor Theory For Dummies
  Historical mailing list - Jerry Hart
  Mon, 8 Dec 1997 02:14:38 -0700
  ...All internal combustion four cycle engines(gasoline or diesel piston or turbine) work basically the same way. The four cycles are INTAKE, COMPRESSION, COMBUSTION...
• Re: Auxilliary batteries
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:22:39 -0400
  ...Starting, Deep Cycle, Stationary<br> � Operates in wet environments�even under 30 feet of water<br> � Will not freeze to �20�F/�30�C...
• Re: Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - PSavage
  Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:42:43 -0800
  ...Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery? > i am ignerent when it comes to batteries (among other things electrical, > and beyond). what is the...
• Re: VoltMinder-Is it a good thing?
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:25:46 -0500
  ...But deep cycle batteries are built differently. Deep cycle batteries are made of fewer very heavy lead plates that can take deep discharge without...
• Re: Why does the fuel pump cycle twice?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:53:10 -0400
  ...Why does the fuel pump cycle twice? If the FI fire everytime a spark fires, and there are four plugs sparking at different times...
• Re: Why does the fuel pump cycle twice?
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:51:10 -0400
  ...I assume they only are operated for a fraction (one quarter?) of the duty cycle to get the proper charge. Ken Lewis http://neksiwel...
• Dometic
  Historical mailing list - Ian Allan
  Mon, 22 May 2006 22:50:13 -0400
  ...my fridge will cycle through a range of about 15 degrees (F) from coldest to warmest during the cooling cycle. It also seems that...
• Re: '81 Westy Deep-cycle/group 41 combo Q's
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 15 Mar 1997 13:15:04
  For those who were interested in "The 12 Volt Bible", I've been given the real name and isbn number. "Your Boat's Electrical...
• Deep cycle battery problem...95 eurovan
  Historical mailing list - Dr. Jim
  Tue, 26 May 1998 11:28:30 -0700
  I have a 95 eurovan and 1st camping trip, using my furnace, by morning, the battery was almost completely drained. Is this normal or...
• Batteries: Optima vs new Exide spiral wound?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hunter
  Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:08:11 EDT
  Exide has a new, blue case, spiral wound deep cycle for $102 with 48 mo warranty rated 50ah. Optima dealer quoted $165, 65ah, 1...
• Re: Optima deep cycle batt. as starting battery?
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Fri, 16 Nov 2001 22:13:49 -0600
  Benny, You sure are a schvenia----- 7 out of 10------yea right. One good one would kill you. From: BenTbtstr8 << Two is always better...
• Re: My turn for a cooling sys question
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:35:01 -0700
  ...in from the overflow bottle with repeated warm up/cool down cycles. I often don't bother to bleed at the radiator, and just...