Classic battery

Notch000

Hi,

im currently running a couple of classics with my borther. They dont get out half enought and we frequently have to recharge batteries over night or replace altogether replace. Weve about 5 cars and are down now to one battery at the moment which we swap round as needed,. Were running a fiat 500, 1500 midget, 1000 morris minor and a 2Cv, ATM were jsut using a generic 12V battery. anyways i need to buy another one or two and am wondering what is the best do it all battery, is there a issue using a high low capacity or cranking power ?>??? what is optimal,. The battery boxs will take any common size batterys

The battery also goes into the ride on as well when needed

coylemj

The technology in all 12V car batteries is the same - six lead-acid cells arranged in series. So the 'cranking power' will be directly related to capacity (amp-hours). You need to buy a battery capable of starting the biggest engine you have.

Ubbquittious

The ould trusty traditional oldschool simple run-of-the-mill 'plain Jane' 12V lead-acid battery hasn't changed much since it's invention all those years ago by a man smoking a pipe and wearing a top hat while sat at his wooden workbench inside in his shed

josip

Do you leave the batteries connected in between runs?
Do the classics drain the current over time?
Perhaps you need a smart trickle charger to keep them charged up in between runs?

Del2005

josip wrote: »

Do you leave the batteries connected in between runs?
Do the classics drain the current over time?
Perhaps you need a smart trickle charger to keep them charged up in between runs?

1 battery is cheaper than 5, especially since they can only drive 1 car at a time. Might be an idea to buy 2 decent batteries and a couple of trickle chargers to keep them maintained, unless you never plan on driving together.

Are all the terminals on the same side in the cars?

Notch000

terminals arwe all the same on all the cars, we use battery isolator on each plug and usually just leave them in what ever car was ran last, an tricly charger would be ideal but id need to add 20 mtrs of cable to cover the whole garage !!! the battery tend of go bad from repeated cranking to start, being left idle and from relatively short run to move and cars round or local spin round yard

mikeecho

That would wreck my head.

I'd get 5 batteries and 5 trickle chargers.

But that's just me.

Del2005

Notch000 wrote: »

terminals arwe all the same on all the cars, we use battery isolator on each plug and usually just leave them in what ever car was ran last, an tricly charger would be ideal but id need to add 20 mtrs of cable to cover the whole garage !!! the battery tend of go bad from repeated cranking to start, being left idle and from relatively short run to move and cars round or local spin round yard

20m of cable is cheaper than a battery and you know yourself that you are killing the batteries.

It only takes a minute to remove and fit a battery so leaving 2 constantly charging somewhere will mean quicker starting of your cars, as I'm sure with your current setup you are either jumping or bump starting if the installed battery won't crank, not to mention the damage repeated deep cycling does to normal batteries.