Battery recommendations

[Dami860]

I currently have a '24 AR190. I recently installed some polk db652s with a small kicker amp and I've stubbornly decided to forgo adding a second battery. I'm just curious, what can I upgrade my stock battery to that will better handle the additional load?

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I currently have a '24 AR190. I recently installed some polk db652s with a small kicker amp and I've stubbornly decided to forgo adding a second battery. I'm just curious, what can I upgrade my stock battery to that will better handle the additional load?

Question, do you have an onboard charger to keep the battery charged while the boat is not in use?

Why would you not want to add a second house battery, its easy and keeps your start battery isolated.

There are a lot of threads on this site about adding batteries so just doing a search will give you a ton of results.

For sure you need to add a Victron Smart shunt so that you know what the state of charge is in your battery, and you need to have a jump pack on board if you are going to stay with a single battery.

 

[Dami860]

Question, do you have an onboard charger to keep the battery charged while the boat is not in use?

Why would you not want to add a second house battery, its easy and keeps your start battery isolated.

There are a lot of threads on this site about adding batteries so just doing a search will give you a ton of results.

For sure you need to add a Victron Smart shunt so that you know what the state of charge is in your battery, and you need to have a jump pack on board if you are going to stay with a single battery.

I don't currently have an onboard charger but I do monitor the voltage on the display screen. I do carry a jump pack with me. I just felt that there wasn't a lot of room for adding a 2nd battery and it didn't seem that simple to me, unless I just didn't come across the proper instructions.

It was told to me that these class D amps don't use a ton of juice unless you're blasting music at rest, but I'm all ears.

 

[Btsnhos]

I have a 195 and run a starter battery and two lithiums for the stereo. You have plenty of room. Search "DVSR" or "Blue-seas add a battery" for ideas

 

[Dami860]

I have a 195 and run a starter battery and two lithiums for the stereo. You have plenty of room. Search "DVSR" or "Blue-seas add a battery" for ideas

How do I know if I get the 120 amp or 65 amp Blue-seas add a battery?

 

[FSH 210 Sport]

I don't currently have an onboard charger but I do monitor the voltage on the display screen. I do carry a jump pack with me. I just felt that there wasn't a lot of room for adding a 2nd battery and it didn't seem that simple to me, unless I just didn't come across the proper instructions.

It was told to me that these class D amps don't use a ton of juice unless you're blasting music at rest, but I'm all ears.

You need to add an onboard charger. The charging system on your boat is not capable of properly charging your battery.

IF you’re going to stick with a single battery you need a dual purpose start / deep cycle battery.

IF you’re going to add a second battery, search the forums and there is a ton of information. I personally like the BEP marine switch that comes on the Yamaha boats, its compact and simple, start & house battery switches plus an emergency parallel switch and the dvsr is built into the cluster.

 

[Dami860]

You need to add an onboard charger. The charging system on your boat is not capable of properly charging your battery.

IF you’re going to stick with a single battery you need a dual purpose start / deep cycle battery.

IF you’re going to add a second battery, search the forums and there is a ton of information. I personally like the BEP marine switch that comes on the Yamaha boats, its compact and simple, start & house battery switches plus an emergency parallel switch and the dvsr is built into the cluster.

Thanks for your intel. If I forgo a second battery, would you recommend both the onboard charger ie. norco genius10 AND a dual purpose start / deep cycle battery?

 

[biffdotorg]

Thanks for your intel. If I forgo a second battery, would you recommend both the onboard charger ie. norco genius10 AND a dual purpose start / deep cycle battery?

Your experience will tell you. You already have a jump pack, so go out and run it. If you run out of juice on a nice day of listening, you at least know you can get home.

Then start shopping for a bigger single battery/charger, or a second battery/charger. Until then, you may be just like most folks and find that the stock stereo is all they need, or that a slightly upgraded stereo is better, but may limit their listening time.

If you are not jamming for hours on the sandbar at "11" you may not need more than what you have. Everyone's experience is different as everyone has a different setup other than those that leave theirs stock. And Yamaha designed yours to run stock for quite some time safely without running the battery down, and should warn you when you are getting low.

At that time though, as said above, the charging system on the boat will not recover that battery fully just by running back to shore.

Good luck,

 

[Dami860]

Your experience will tell you. You already have a jump pack, so go out and run it. If you run out of juice on a nice day of listening, you at least know you can get home.

Then start shopping for a bigger single battery/charger, or a second battery/charger. Until then, you may be just like most folks and find that the stock stereo is all they need, or that a slightly upgraded stereo is better, but may limit their listening time.

If you are not jamming for hours on the sandbar at "11" you may not need more than what you have. Everyone's experience is different as everyone has a different setup other than those that leave theirs stock. And Yamaha designed yours to run stock for quite some time safely without running the battery down, and should warn you when you are getting low.

At that time though, as said above, the charging system on the boat will not recover that battery fully just by running back to shore.

Good luck,

Yea, I have no plans to compete with anyone at my local sandbar. I only got an amp because I wanted to hear my music at cruising speed and higher. I will likely not even play music at a sandbar.

 

[biffdotorg]

Yea, I have no plans to compete with anyone at my local sandbar. I only got an amp because I wanted to hear my music at cruising speed and higher. I will likely not even play music at a sandbar.

Perfect, that's the answer then, leave it alone unless you have issues. Nothing catastrophic has happened by draining your battery. Take a look at it and find out if it's a cranking or deep cycle or hybrid battery. As a cranking battery will not like being drained down often. That's the closest thing to catastrophic that could happen.

 

[Dami860]

Perfect, that's the answer then, leave it alone unless you have issues. Nothing catastrophic has happened by draining your battery. Take a look at it and find out if it's a cranking or deep cycle or hybrid battery. As a cranking battery will not like being drained down often. That's the closest thing to catastrophic that could happen.

So I took a look and it's a starting battery. Would group and rc would be I be looking for in a bigger battery? The consensus seemed to be a deep cycle when searching around.

 

[Btsnhos]

How do I know if I get the 120 amp or 65 amp Blue-seas add a battery?

Google. But 65 is fine. Don't use lithiums with the blue-seas kit, the lithiums hold a higher charge and they will continously try to charge your starter battery through the ACR. I just ran a seperate system with two perko switches so i have dedicated starter battery that gets recharged with the engine's stator and then a second system used to power the speakers and any accessories. I wired a noco 5x3 charger and plug it up at night or plug it into my truck to recharge if im at a hotel