SSB HVT 50D Vs SSB HVT 65D

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Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi again Imaz, as Tombie posted, to reduce the chances of the positive ( + ) terminal of either battery coming in contact with your bonnet, say on rough roads, both batteries should be turned around.


This will put the negative ( - ) terminals as the closest to the bonnet and other than giving you nipples in your bonnet, they will not cause a dead short. Your present setup can cause a dead short.


Also, the battery terminals on the SSB batteries can be removed and you can use a 6M bolt to secure cabling to these batteries. This lowers the overall hight of these batteries and this will help reduce the chances of a bonnet contact even further.

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Yes, exactly. I will replace the terminals with the M6 bolts instead to give that height clearance. I will use rubber boots, and there is the hood lining as well.

They do have the LD or LHD version of the HVT-50D, which the terminals are swapped side.

Cheers for the heads up.

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Originally Posted by LRD414

I've taken all these figures from the Superstart and Optima websites:

	HVT-50D	HVT-65D	YellowTop
	60Ah	68Ah	55Ah
Length	238mm	258mm	256mm
Width	172mm	168mm	175mm
Height	182mm	176mm	??
Terminal Height	206mm	182mm	201mm
Weight	19kg	20.5kg	19.5kg

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With the HVT-65D no longer available and two other batteries mentioned recently I've re-done table for reference:

	Yellowtop	CBC12V75AH	Optima H6
	55Ah	75Ah	72Ah
Length	256mm	261mm	278mm
Width	175mm	169mm	175mm
Height	??	208mm	190mm
Terminal Height	201mm	214mm	190mm
Weight	19.5kg	22.7kg	25kg

So the CBC is 13mm higher and the H6 is 22mm longer.

CBC is a Superstart battery same supplier as SSB range.
The H6 is from the Optima Yellowtop family.

CBC12V75AH AGM Cyclic VRLA Battery
H6 | OPTIMA Batteries

Cheers,
Scott

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Originally Posted by LRD414

With the HVT-65D no longer available and two other batteries mentioned recently I've re-done table for reference:

	Yellowtop	CBC12V75AH	Optima H6
	55Ah	75Ah	72Ah
Length	256mm	261mm	278mm
Width	175mm	169mm	175mm
Height	??	208mm	190mm
Terminal Height	201mm	214mm	190mm
Weight	19.5kg	22.7kg	25kg

So the CBC is 13mm higher and the H6 is 22mm longer.

CBC is a Superstart battery same supplier as SSB range.
The H6 is from the Optima Yellowtop family.

CBC12V75AH AGM Cyclic VRLA Battery
H6 | OPTIMA Batteries

Cheers,
Scott

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I was contemplating on the H6, but being Optima, it has developed a bad reputation.

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Originally Posted by imaz

I was contemplating on the H6, but being Optima, it has developed a bad reputation.

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Yes and I think the CBC may be the go. 75ah gives a reasonable increase from the D34.
The 13mm extra height would be no higher than the j-bolts I'm using now for the hold-down bracket.

Scott

Hi Folks and while the Fusion battery looks good, you will need to test the bonnet clearance.

I experimented with a 55Ah Lead Crystal battery, which was just 1mm higher and while it did not touch the bonnet but there was zero clearance.

A bad bump and your bonnet may grow a nipple or two.

Those with the SSB HVT50D, what is your battery voltage when full?

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Originally Posted by imaz

Those with the SSB HVT50D, what is your battery voltage when full?

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12.7-8. I have two and they are 3 months old.

I've just spent the last 8 days charging every night to revive my start battery which is 5 years old. Seems to have helped.

I have two of them in parallel as aux, few weeks old. After engine power off, they slowly drop from around 15v to 12.99v where they sit stable. Im assuming that is the going float rate.

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Originally Posted by imaz

I have two of them in parallel as aux, few weeks old. After engine power off, they slowly drop from around 15v to 12.99v where they sit stable. Im assuming that is the going float rate.

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15v seems too high for a charging voltage, are you sure your volt meter is correctly calibrated?

My HVT-50D stabilises at 12.8-12.9v.

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Originally Posted by kelvo

15v seems too high for a charging voltage, are you sure your volt meter is correctly calibrated?

My HVT-50D stabilises at 12.8-12.9v.

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Unsure, probably needs to be replaced, bloody smith multimeter :)

I caped my Redarc dc-dc to 14.6 as recommended. It could go as high as 15.4v under different profiles.