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<blockquote data-quote="Buster" data-source="post: 497336" data-attributes="member: 27745">B and C are correct as stated.&nbsp; For A, I was saying that for best life, you&#039;re better off at less than full charge but what level doesn&#039;t really matter as long as it&#039;s above about 40% and below 85%. If you know you aren&#039;t depleting it it&#039;s fine (best!) to store without charging.&nbsp; For instance, with my 100Ah battery that I use for trolling only (got an outboard for place-to-place) I know that 3 hours on the water doesn&#039;t get it below 40-50%, so I ignore it until the night I go fishing again.&nbsp; If I&#039;m fighting a wind and back trolling at full speed for 3 hrs, that&#039;s different and I&#039;ll give it an hour or two of charge when I get home. That&#039;s before I got my monitor which pretty much confirmed my guesstimates.&nbsp; Ask more if you like.&nbsp; I wasn&#039;t quite sure what you were getting at with A so I may have missed the point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buster, post: 497336, member: 27745"] B and C are correct as stated. For A, I was saying that for best life, you're better off at less than full charge but what level doesn't really matter as long as it's above about 40% and below 85%. If you know you aren't depleting it it's fine (best!) to store without charging. For instance, with my 100Ah battery that I use for trolling only (got an outboard for place-to-place) I know that 3 hours on the water doesn't get it below 40-50%, so I ignore it until the night I go fishing again. If I'm fighting a wind and back trolling at full speed for 3 hrs, that's different and I'll give it an hour or two of charge when I get home. That's before I got my monitor which pretty much confirmed my guesstimates. Ask more if you like. I wasn't quite sure what you were getting at with A so I may have missed the point. [/QUOTE]

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