fullriver batteries?

[avengingangel]

i'm changing my 3 yr old odyssey pc680 I currently use to a full river battery. i will see it tomorrow but supposedly has the same dimensions in every way and has slightly more cca.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this company.

[avengingangel]

just noticed these batteries are made in china. you know i have the fancy pamphlet for these batteries in front of me. it's got a symbol on it that would make you think it was an american company. nope, made in china.

it's the bigger picture here than just changing a battery that concerns me.

[n504tw]

Nice logo they have. What about the red, white and blue logo with the eagle's head made you think they were made in America?

[Sam Buchanan]

Originally Posted by avengingangel

i'm changing my 3 yr old odyssey pc680 I currently use to a full river battery. i will see it tomorrow but supposedly has the same dimensions in every way and has slightly more cca.
Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this company.

Your three year-old Odyssey is just entering the prime of its life--not unusual to get 6-7 years out of a PC-680.

I would take your battery over the new Chinese one any day.

[avengingangel]

Originally Posted by Sam Buchanan

Your three year-old Odyssey is just entering the prime of its life--not unusual to get 6-7 years out of a PC-680.

I would take your battery over the new Chinese one any day.

I would have hoped as well. After a year of worsening starts I put a load test on it yesterday and it showed 9 volts.

I'd rather take anything made in the states over chinese built too, that's why I'm questioning it. Actually in a quick search i couldn't nail down exactly where odyssey was made either. I'll have a better look now just for curiousity sake.

[avengingangel]

ya, looks pretty obvious, missouri and uk

[beav]

From the Odyssey Battery website:

"ODYSSEY batteries are manufactured to strict quality standards in two facilities globally: Warrensburg, Missouri USA and Newport, Wales United Kingdom"

[Sam Buchanan]

Originally Posted by avengingangel

I would have hoped as well. After a year of worsening starts I put a load test on it yesterday and it showed 9 volts.

I'd rather take anything made in the states over chinese built too, that's why I'm questioning it. Actually in a quick search i couldn't nail down exactly where odyssey was made either. I'll have a better look now just for curiousity sake.

Be sure your charging system is up to spec and that you don't have a keep-alive circuit pulling it down all the time.

[avengingangel]

Originally Posted by Sam Buchanan

Be sure your charging system is up to spec and that you don't have a keep-alive circuit pulling it down all the time.

my alternator shows on my grand rapids to be producing 14.2 or 4.
i'm pretty sure my master turns everything off.
It wouldn't make sense for there to be a current draw when I think of it because whether the aircraft sat for a week or 6 weeks this winter it still seems to have had the same trouble, just never enough ummpf. Just always seemed weak. but it's certainly worse this spring then last.



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[rv7charlie]

Have you checked the battery voltage measuring directly on the battery terminals while cranking? If cranking is weak but battery voltage does *not* drop significantly, you might have a loose/corroded connection somewhere. It can be on the + side or the ground return side. I'm using a relatively cheap Asian battery on my O-320 (rated at 20AH, but same size as PC680), & I can almost taxi on the starter. Around $80 delivered when I bought it; I think that they may be cheaper now. I'll try to find the name/model if you want it.

(If shopping for an SLA battery, remember to check the cranking amps, not just the AH rating. Some SLA's are optimized for things like UPS's, where current demand is lower but longer than is required of a starting battery.)

Charlie