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03-03-2022 12:01 PM
Good Afternoon Sea Ray Community.
My boat is a 2000 380DA Sundancer. My wife and I bought her in the spring of 2019. It appears the battery bank of 5 was last outfitted by the previous owner with AGM batteries. My current charger is probably as old as the boat and not compatible with AGMs. I am lucky I got this far without even noticing. I have 2 batteries that are starting to fail. I need to either buy AGMs and upgrade my charger, or swap out all 5 for wet cell. What are you running with on board? Has anyone got enough experience with both to decide they like one type of battery over another? Who has a recommendation for battery or for charger?

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03-04-2022 08:20 PM
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03-05-2022 04:15 AM
https://lifelinebatteries.com/products/marine-batteries/gpl-31xt/
No way I would ever return to flooded cell. As an example, adding distilled water was a royal butt pain.
The charger is important, as shown in this Technical Manual. Mine was upgraded long ago to a nice 50A device.
https://321166-984045-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/6-0101G_Lifeline_Technical_Manual.pdf
The charger doesn't spend much time in the high current Bulk stage before toggling to the Absorption stage.

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03-05-2022 10:06 PM
Switched to AGM’s last Memorial Day weekend. Love them, never have to worry about checking /adding distilled water. My boat had the upgraded charger already, I would start there. Those AGM’s should be good for 7 years or longer

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03-05-2022 11:19 PM

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03-06-2022 05:36 AM

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03-06-2022 06:04 AM
What battery monitor do you have, I need to get one, just haven’t decided in one

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03-06-2022 06:21 AM

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03-06-2022 12:44 PM
If your batteries discharge even to 50%, you aren't using the boat enough or aren't maintaining the properly. Unless you need to replace all 5 batteries, just replace the 2 with AGMS and then buy a smart charger. Check monthly and recharge as necessary.

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03-07-2022 08:36 AM

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08-03-2022 06:49 PM
Hi! I saw that you had a post a while back about repowering your 2000 380DA. Am about to do the same thing and was wondering what motors you went with and of any lessons learned or recommendations that you might have from your experience. Thanks!
