| GC Battery Dimensions & latest reviews [message #209513] |
Sat, 01 June 2013 09:22  |
mickey szilagyi
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Registered: January 2013
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We've purchased and received the stainless steel battery tray from JimK. It seems to be plenty sturdy. It just barely fits in the battery compartment on our 77 Kingsley. We cut a small notch out of the bottom front of the partition between the battery and generator compartments so the latch at the left front works. This enabled us to set the battery tray a little deeper into the compartment so the compartment door closes properly. Mounting holes are drilled and it's about to go in.
However, we are now looking for batteries to fit the battery tray and are concerned whether they'll fit. We don't have a CG battery to actually measure so we're relying on the online specs. Trojan T-105 specs are 10 3/8 long, 7 1/8 wide. The battery tray is 20 1/4 long and 7 1/8 wide. So it appears the Trojans will fit width wise but the length concerns us as two of the Trojans will be 20 3/4.
Does anyone have the stainless tray from JimK with Trojans in it? Or does anyone have Trojan batteries and would be kind enough to check the dimensions to verify the 10 3/8 lengths.
Secondly, and we realize there are a lot of variables and much depends on power needs, but we'd appreciate any recommendations for brands of batteries based on the latest available. From what we're reading Trojans are slowly losing their market share. We're leaning towards lead acid core at the moment. And they need to fit in a 20 1/4 long and 7 1/8 wide tray.
We were considering the Duracell GC battery offered at SAMs but are concerned that SAMs seems to change brands often leading us to believe they're basing their batteries on price and perhaps not much on quality.
Thanks, as always,
Mickey/Chris
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing/Gregory, MI
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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