New marine battery wont fully charge.

[whitedust]

Don’t know costs but exactly what my buddy did.

 

[jjj70095]

Was it a seadoo boat or jet ski?

 

[garageguy]

Im seeing used motors for 1000.00 reconditioned ones for 2500.00

 

[jjj70095]

I am hoping it is $5k or less when the time comes to replace the engine.

 

[garageguy]

Alls I know is what Google told me

 

[REVVERUP]

I've been reading arguments about marine batteries online for years, and here's what I've come up with. A battery maintainer/trickle charger will not charge your deep cycle marine battery. You're wasting your time, and you need a higher amperage charger.

I've stored mine indoors over winter and will pop them on a 2 amp trickle charger. I was told that I'm not doing anything helpful to the battery with a trickle charger. Get a higher amperage charger and charge it that way.

 

[jjj70095]

My old maintainer had no problem charging the marine battery, before the charger broke. The charger was 10 years old.

 

[euphoric1]

one other word of advice...if its a FVP battery throw it away and get a real battery.

 

[jjj70095]

Marine battery is interstate.