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Old 09-10-2016, 05:39 AM   #12
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I built that same battery bank (8 T105s) when I did the refit for my trawler. One of the things to consider would be how much you could use your inverter instead of the generator. My expresso machine and the microwave easily run off the bank through the inverter. Making the bank smaller tends to work the batteries harder for the heavy loads such as the microwave. There are no free lunches, so you have to put the amps back in the battery. But on days you will be cruising, you get to save the generator time. Really like the idea of not firing up the generator for a 10 minute job. If I were to do it again, I might have gone to 12 batteries to be able to go 2 days without charging. At $100 a piece in Delaware with no sales tax, they were certainly inexpensive enough.

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