firecadet613 wrote:
Thanks for the pics. How hard was it to install the extra batt and rewire everything? If I did this route, I figure I could get one group 29 for now, and leave the 2 24's to be house batts until I need to replace them, then go 29s. I do have a built in gen on this boat though...
If I didn't say so above .... that would be fine.
However (there's always that "but" ......)
The two batteries that you use in parallel (for your house, for example) should be of similar capacity and age. We know that all 29s are not the same capacity, but close is fine. And, if you have one 2-year old 29 and a new 29 (in the future, as you suggested), you will be hampering the new one ..... similar to the issues noted above, like with two different capacity batteries.
Just keep this in mind.
My boat had an older 29 and a new 29 (both interstate). So .... I purchased a new MAXX-29 (WalMart) which had a similar capacity and I have the old 29 as the engine and the two new ones as house.