Well I took my battery back in monday to west marine and they put a tester on it and then exchanged it out for another battery. They didn’t have any group 27 gells in stock so gave me a group 27 AGM battery. I got 13 dollars in change back as the AGM batterys are cheaper than the Gel batterys now. The GEL was 87 amp hours while the AGM is 92 amp hours.. So I got about a 5 amp hour upgrade. The downside is that AGMS do not last as long as GEL batterys. I will be buying another Group 27 AGM to make a two battery bank on Sea Puppy. This will give me a much larger capacity and also some redundancy.. As I have already installed the cabling and connectors prior when I was rewiring the batterys to be on port instead of starboard it will just be a matter of hooking up the second battery.
Something I have also learned from all this is that a pre-sailing checklist and a post-sailing checklist are needed. I will be putting this list together and working with it for a while this fall before I get it laminated and mounted on sea puppy so that you can check it off with grease pencil.. I will probably also leave a blank space so that repairs that are needed or items that I need to buy can be written down as I think of them.
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