Jamie Fitterer wrote:
> I have been looking to get the AUX battery done.  I have looked at
> kits and just do not have the time to put towards it before camping
> season is over.  I have found a local Stereo and electronics store
> that has done a few Westies and they use these Batteries
> http://www.stingerelectronics.com/products.aspx  Wondering if my
> knowledgable friends on this list could help me determine the best
> battery out  of this group to use.

Hard to say. These are most likely rebranded batteries, "Stinger" not
being a company big enough to get someone to build a bespoke line of
batteries for them. Rating batteries by "5-second bursts" is not very
helpful unless one is planning to suck all the power out of the battery
in 5 seconds. Slow and steady is how an aux battery is generally used,
and that's where your gen-u-wine deep cycle batteries, a la Trojan (and
others) come into play. Since the emphasis in the tech literature is on
low internal resistance, fast discharge, they are unlikely to have the
heavy lead plates of a real deep cycle battery, but rather the thinner
lead plates of a general-purpose starter batteries, not unlike what
Sears and Walmart sell.

However, they do have flashy labels!

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
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