Have any CD36 owners re-located some or all of their batteries in the aft lazarette? Port locker shelf space may be have to be allocated to a new refrig. and water heater. Battries will either be grp. 27s or 4-Ds. Any suggestions regarding new homes for these batteries would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff
jbarnes@oxbio.com
CD36 Battery location
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Mike Thorpe
Re: CD36 Battery location
Jeff,
On Journey's End, CD-36 #144, I added a shelf and 4 Group 27 AGM batteries aft of the starboard quarter berth. It's a tight fit but it can be done. This gave me a house string with an 800A battery reserve. A 5th 200A AGM start battery is in on the shelf in the port sail locker along with the water heater. I'm planning on adding refrigeration this winter. I think I can cut an opening in the vertical portion of the shelf assembly in the port sail locker and add a 2nd shelf below the existing shelf that supports the start battery and water heater. Hope this helps.
Mike Thorpe
mthorpe@capecod.net
On Journey's End, CD-36 #144, I added a shelf and 4 Group 27 AGM batteries aft of the starboard quarter berth. It's a tight fit but it can be done. This gave me a house string with an 800A battery reserve. A 5th 200A AGM start battery is in on the shelf in the port sail locker along with the water heater. I'm planning on adding refrigeration this winter. I think I can cut an opening in the vertical portion of the shelf assembly in the port sail locker and add a 2nd shelf below the existing shelf that supports the start battery and water heater. Hope this helps.
Mike Thorpe
Jeff Barnes wrote: Have any CD36 owners re-located some or all of their batteries in the aft lazarette? Port locker shelf space may be have to be allocated to a new refrig. and water heater. Battries will either be grp. 27s or 4-Ds. Any suggestions regarding new homes for these batteries would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff
mthorpe@capecod.net
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Leo MacDonald
Re: CD36 Battery location
Mike,
Are the Group 27 AGM batteries 200 A/H each?
All,
Is there a concern on putting that much weight so far aft?
Fair Winds,
Leo
macdore@aol.com
Are the Group 27 AGM batteries 200 A/H each?
All,
Is there a concern on putting that much weight so far aft?
Fair Winds,
Leo
macdore@aol.com
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Patrick Turner
Re: CD36 Battery location
I too will be looking for some additional space, but I'll tell you what I've done so far. I have a 1979 CD36 and on my boat the starboard cockpit locker runs about half the length of the bench seat. I built a shelve along the forward bulkhead of that locker space. The shelf runs athwartships and has built into it tall fiddles that capture 2 grp31 batteries. This is my current house bank and is about 210ah. I had also removed the floor of this locker space, opening it up a little and there is enough space below the new shelf for a 3rd grp31 battery bringing the total up to 320ah. My starting battery is in the storage space under the quarter berth right there by the nav station. On later model CD's this space was devoted to a water tank, but not on my boat so I built a small little shelve on the inboard side of that space against the wall that seperates the engine compartment from the quarter berth. I put a grp27 battery there - it's very much tucked up and out of the way there. I would prefer to have the house batteries lower and more centered and may consider glassing in a shelf under the cockpit sole, directly in front of the steering quadrant and placing 2-3 grp31's in there and leaving the original grp31's in the starboard locker. That would bring the house total up to somwhere between 420 -540ah In the event that I need to make adjustments to the steering cable or do an engine alignment, the grp31's are not so heavy that you can't pull them out.
Another possibility would be to locate them in the bilge area (gel batts only). Some boats have the space, but it would require cutting a new floor access panel and glassing in a box of some kind. There is also the storage area at the forward part of the nav station facing inboard towards the galley. My boat currently has 2 not-very-well designed pull out drawers. There is a lot of space that is not being used in there and I believe the demensions would allow for a couple of grp31's in there. You could also tear out one of your 30 gal water tanks under the settee's and replace it with a smaller (20gal) tank.You'd have to sacrifice a little water for that, but it would free up some space and you could fill that with some batteries. There are a few ways to skin this cat, but they all involve compromise of some kind - tearing something up, losing something else, etc. You just have to way the choices and see which your most comfortable with.
Good luck and let me know what other ideas you come up with, cuz' I'll be busy scratchen' my head about it for awhile.
Pat
patrick.t@home.com
Another possibility would be to locate them in the bilge area (gel batts only). Some boats have the space, but it would require cutting a new floor access panel and glassing in a box of some kind. There is also the storage area at the forward part of the nav station facing inboard towards the galley. My boat currently has 2 not-very-well designed pull out drawers. There is a lot of space that is not being used in there and I believe the demensions would allow for a couple of grp31's in there. You could also tear out one of your 30 gal water tanks under the settee's and replace it with a smaller (20gal) tank.You'd have to sacrifice a little water for that, but it would free up some space and you could fill that with some batteries. There are a few ways to skin this cat, but they all involve compromise of some kind - tearing something up, losing something else, etc. You just have to way the choices and see which your most comfortable with.
Good luck and let me know what other ideas you come up with, cuz' I'll be busy scratchen' my head about it for awhile.
Pat
patrick.t@home.com
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Steve Alarcon
Re: CD36 Battery location
All,
I have 4 grp 27's in the port settee, and have noticed no adverse effect. Of course, they were there when I got the boat, but they don't appear to cause any hobby-horseing.
Steve Alarcon
CD36 Tenacity (#52)
Seattle
alarcon3@prodigy.net
I have 4 grp 27's in the port settee, and have noticed no adverse effect. Of course, they were there when I got the boat, but they don't appear to cause any hobby-horseing.
Steve Alarcon
CD36 Tenacity (#52)
Seattle
alarcon3@prodigy.net
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Mike Thorpe`
Re: CD36 Battery location
Leo,
Yes they are 200 A/H each. They also weigh about 90# each so they are heavy but I have 150' of chain in the chain locker so they offset each other.
Mike
mthorpe@capecod.net
Yes they are 200 A/H each. They also weigh about 90# each so they are heavy but I have 150' of chain in the chain locker so they offset each other.
Mike
Leo MacDonald wrote: Mike,
Are the Group 27 AGM batteries 200 A/H each?
All,
Is there a concern on putting that much weight so far aft?
Fair Winds,
Leo
mthorpe@capecod.net