Re: Best size battery for 1990 5.0L Mercruiser?
Thanks Chris...I'll look into the Col-Hersey type switch.
Now, here's a story for you:
I started out today searching for a replacement battery. I am looking specifically for a group 24 marine starting battery. I googled this and the batteries-plus comes up in the top ten, showing me a SLI24MA battery with 675 amps cca. Perfect! I thought. Since the website doesn’t list prices, I searched other websites for this exact battery and found it for 69.95 plus core. Perfect again, I thought. The website told me the battery was available in a store near me, and asked for my zip code. When I plugged that in, it told me the nearest store was 20 miles away. The price looked good enough to convince me to make the drive.
Guess I really should have called first.
I got to the store and asked the girl at the counter for a group 24 marine starting battery. She immediately took me to the shelf with a group 24 marine deep cycle battery (SLI24MDC). No, I said, this is not a starting battery. “This is the same thing” , she told me, with a great big smile on her face. I disagreed and had her look up the SLI24MA on the batteries-plus website. She found it, but continued to tell me that the SLI24MDC (priced at 89.95 plus core, by the way) was the exact same battery. I didn’t want to stand there and give her a lesson on the difference between a “starting” battery (with 675 amps cca, by the way) versus a deep cycle battery (cca 500 amps). I asked if she could get a SLI24MA battery. She said, no because that battery is only on a batteries-plus corporate website. Huh? Then she said again… “it’s the same battery!!”. Why, then, I asked, do they list it as a starting battery under a different model number (with different cca)? I got a shoulder shrug. I said thank you, and left.
Needless to say, I wasted time and effort driving to that store, plus about 7 bucks in gas. I probably wont be going back to Batteries-plus in the near future. Guess I will go with a Die hard.