cheap battery for winching..

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IamRobbie

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Went out the other day and my mate in his td5 with his stupid 35" wheels managed to get stuck as per usual...

When trying to winch him out i struggled to be honest, I'm not sure if it was because his rear axle was stuck on a tree stump or the fact that the two brown wires on my alt had snapped 10 mins before and i had only managed to get 1 of the 2 brown wires connected back to the alterntor to help it charge some....



I run a 2nd battery for winching but its only a normal starting battery off of a disco i believe...

When winching the lights were dimming then going brighter then dimmer ect...

So it was struggling but I'm guessing its down to all those factors..


What i want to know is what is a decent cheap battery to use, ive been reading online and ive read that to find the biggest tractor battery that will fit in the place i want it....


Winch doesnt get much use but when it does i could do with it actually pulling me or them out.. lol

Thanks
 
What is it called bud?

I have a battery that starts it under the seat no problem, but the battery behind the rear bulkhead powers spot lights, winches, elec fan ect. i only had my headlights on the other night so i could see the cable and it still struggled. Im confused with the CCA and the other amps it has ect... blooming electrics argh!
 
12V - the battery voltage obviously!

75Ah - Most would say it can supply 75A for an hour, but in actual fact the more you draw the less time it will last. So if you put a 75A load on your 75Ah battery, it would last less than an hour.

RC is reserve capacity. Bit of a weird one: "number of minutes a fully charged battery at 80 ° F (~27C) will discharge 25 amps until the battery drops below 10.5 volts."

Then I'm guessing its a 540CCA or ^00 battery meaning it can supply that many amps at 0C for ~30 seconds without the battery voltage going drastically low.


Get yourself the biggest, cheapest lump of lead that will fit and don't let it discharge.

I got mine from here: Car Batteries - I browsed for mine manually (car batteries -> pick a brand)

Although I don't have any experience with winching and whether 'deep cycle' batteries/optimas would be beneficial or not.


I managed to squeeze an 830CCA 92Ah battery into my RRC where a 550CCA battery should have gone. Spins the engine over like there's nothing there and can do it almost all day when its freezing cold and the standard battery would struggle a bit.
 
Thanks alot. I'll add it to my purchase list. I know the brown cable coming off the alt had snapped and I had only put one back on in the dark so i guess it was only pulling half in but I thought it would of had more umpf than it had.
 
also, do you know how to winch properly? or are you hooking it up and just starting to pull until it's out?
 
Hooking it up and winching hehe. Only the second time I've ever used it... First saved me from rolling the truck and second it didn't pull him out....

I do have a snatch block to double the pull but wasn't using it.

The cable snapped I believe because it was sat on the manifold pipe.
 
To cut a long story short I followed my two Nov head mates into a position I didn't want to be in lol.. And when he got stuck in ran down my winch to him. Ran back to my truck and started spooling in.. Took about 5 seconds to take the slack up then I felt my front end pull down. I sat on the breaks and then it didn't really do much
...


Might go get myself stuck somewhere really shifty and see if it will winch me out..


A mate gave me a real big tractor battery this afternoon but it only had 5v so it's hooked up to the charger and I'll see if it will hold charge. If it does it hope that'll work..


I also considered putting it as a 3rd battery and having the split charge system charge my two winch batteries separately but have both batteries power a single winch... But how far do I go, after all I drive it once every two week at most...
 
IamRobbie said:
To cut a long story short I followed my two Nov head mates into a position I didn't want to be in lol.. And when he got stuck in ran down my winch to him. Ran back to my truck and started spooling in.. Took about 5 seconds to take the slack up then I felt my front end pull down. I sat on the breaks and then it didn't really do much
...


Might go get myself stuck somewhere really shifty and see if it will winch me out..


A mate gave me a real big tractor battery this afternoon but it only had 5v so it's hooked up to the charger and I'll see if it will hold charge. If it does it hope that'll work..


I also considered putting it as a 3rd battery and having the split charge system charge my two winch batteries separately but have both batteries power a single winch... But how far do I go, after all I drive it once every two week at most...
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if its down at 5v its probably dead!

What about a battery for the battery for the battery for the battery!

Think of all this weight you are adding. Batteries are choofin heavy (lumps of lead!)

Get ONE decent un. like an optima or something? I have an optima in mine and it does everything, massive CCA, greatly reduced self discharging and itll last way longer than a normal sealed lead acid.
 
keep an eye out on here and on ebay for optimas, they are on there regular and go for less than £50 sometimes.

bad boy - boy racers use them to power their amps
 
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