Emergency Battery Q. That will probably get me in trouble.

[Stu Jackson]

An alternative theory:

A reserve battery that is an automobile battery is admittedly less expensive and can be replaced by almost any source:  AutoZone, Napa, PepBoys, etc., whereas I buy my deep cycles from American or US Battery (admittedly not as true deep cycle as golf carts).

A reserve battery is used to start an engine if the house bank fails, and, as I have written many, many times, to support LIMITED house loads until the house bank can be repair/replaced.

What this means to me is that

----  you CAN run your fridge and anything else with just the reserve bank as long as you run your engine just like your car

----  you must be judicious when your engine is NOT running as to the house loads you choose to run;  turn off the fridge, but run instruments

Once the engine is running, the system doesn't really care much what kind of battery you have in the middle.

[Stucker]

I put in the T 125 Trojan batteries and the T 105 are the same height.  Thought the T 145 were to tall.  Might check the height of these.
Paul

There was plenty of space in my Mk II for the T 145's. They are less than an inch taller than the T 125's.