Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: johnny bravo on September 28, 2014, 06:29:42 pm
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is there much difference in the size of leisure batteries, theres one in halfords @ £89 115ah, i would just be using it as and when, for wfp cleaning set up to a pump + controller it will not be connected to car battery, just simple to start with so i can bring out to charge when needed, till i get the knowledge
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some are a bit cheaper via ebay, but if dud or not working 100% it would be pricy to send back,
if local i can just collect
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Butting & bobbing?
I wouldn't bother mate.
Get down the scrap yard. Get a 2nd hand one for a tenner.
That will honestly be just fine.
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In general the larger the better as you have more charge and get more work out of them, if your only doing 3 of 4 hours WFP a day you could get by on an 85 ah battery.
Having brought a few batts over the years, I'd steer clear of cheap ones, they rarely make it past 1 winter.
I've brought 3 from the local caravan supplies shop and they have held their charge really well and gone through 2 winters (mild ones it has to be said)
Darran
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Butting & bobbing?
I wouldn't bother mate.
Get down the scrap yard. Get a 2nd hand one for a tenner.
That will honestly be just fine.
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My advise is DON'T buy one from Ebay. I bought a so called 110 amp leisure battery from a "top seller". It lasted about 6 months and when I took it to a local battery specialist, he said it was a Mercedes Sprinter (re stickered as leisure) battery and was about 4 years old!
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Since then I've bought second hand batteries from scrappies and most have lasted 6-9 months
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Ronnie b who is also on here, uses a 33 amp yuasa leisure battery and it easily lasts him all day.
He charges it every night or every second night and it's about 3 or 4 years old.
Because of that I now use yuasa batteries and can't recommend rh
Enough. I use 110 amp yuasa leisure battery and it's been great. A year old now and hardly loses any voltage after a days work. I charge it twice a week.
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would it be ok just using a normal battery charger, or do you use anything recomended better as charging the leisure battery,
i may start off using a car battery to begin with before i get a leisure battery. hust to get some hands on experience, i will then be able to compare them with the work i do.
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would it be ok just using a normal battery charger, or do you use anything recomended better as charging the leisure battery,
i may start off using a car battery to begin with before i get a leisure battery. hust to get some hands on experience, i will then be able to compare them with the work i do.
Better to charge a leisure battery with an intelligent type battery charger. Ordinary battery charger OK for starter batteries.
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Ctek mxs 5.0 is the charger I use.
It's awesome.
Even brought a few dead batteries back to life with its recon setting.
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these are priced around £55 - £90+