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I have no battery nowSo dont know that is why I am asking
Listen... all these guys are going to critique what gear your using and what you should run. If you are looking for a light weight battery that is going to do everything you want with more power than you'll need. 55$ and your good - 12V 16Ah Deep Cycle LiFePO4 Battery, 2000 Cycles Miady LFP16AH Rechargeable Battery, Maintenance-Free Battery I currently run an entire sled mod off two of these running parallel and have had no issues and these are the newer LiFePo4 style batteries.
Dont forget a LiFePO4 charger too, you will damage the battery using a normal 12V charger over time. Its also not going to fit in most flasher battery trays. but probably a good battery none the less.They do make a size that will fit your flasher case just fine, you can get a 7ah one from dakota for $100 or 10ah for $120 (both with charger).. dakotas come with 11 year warranty.
I did note a special charger was required. Have fun with your said 11 years warranty and let me know how that manufacture honors that when you really need it. All of these manufactures are finding ways out of what they say they honor in some fashion or another. Buddy of mine bought all new ridgid gen 5 gear because of the lifetime warranty and didn’t know he only had a specific time to register his tools and ended up spending 800$ on tool now that are not honored by ridgid because he was a week past when they said they should be registered.But they gladly took his tool information down on their website to document which tools they won’t have to replace... after selling that as there primary reason for the cost.My point is, finding a manufacture that holds true to there word is beyond rare now. If you think Dakota is any different from these other manufactures, they have probably designed their battery to fail right at 11 years
Well if your just running a flasher i would recommend any cheap 9ah sla battery.7ah is good to but a 9ah is more power at low cost.
My point is, finding a manufacture that holds true to there word is beyond rare now. If you think Dakota is any different from these other manufactures, they have probably designed their battery to fail right at 11 yearsIf you get 11 years out of a battery, who cares if it goes bad? Just wondering. Most people don't keep their flasher for 11 years before they move on to '"newer" technology. I totally agree with Doc, any 9ah 12v battery will work great. The thing you need to do is check the size of the battery well in your flasher and go to battery+ or some other place where they sell batteries and see which one will fit your flasher's well.
can someone refresh my memory on the math for figuring your battery life?Humminbird says my helix 5 Chirp GPS G2 draws 615mA. I'm running an old motor sports lead-acid battery, and just wondering how many amp hours i should look at when i pull the trigger on an upgrade to lithium.
hello allI am looking to replace a battery on my Flasher and really not sure what i should getAny one got advice on which battery I should getDon
615mah is 0.615 amps. Batteries are rated in amps per hour so a 10ah battery will give up 10amps for 1 hour or 1 amp for 10 hours. So 10/.615 gives your runtime, 16.2 hour. With lead acid batteries we would get about 70% of the batteries runtime in actual use... with lithium we get about 90%. So a 10ah SLA would probably run for 11 hours or so, and a 10ah lithium will run for around 14.5 hours. To throw another curve in that road, that 615mah is your MAX draw (humminbird tells you this so you can chose the correct wiring). Could draw as low as 3-400mah or so depending on your settings and brightness setting. You can use a multimeter to test your draw.
Ok thanks for the info The flasher is a hummingbird 35 I only run the flasher.Thanks for the advice