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    Quote Originally Posted by drivesafe View Post
    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.

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by LRD414 View Post
    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
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by LRD414 View Post
    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,
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    I was contemplating on the H6, but being Optima, it has developed a bad reputation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imaz View Post
    I was contemplating on the H6, but being Optima, it has developed a bad reputation.
    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.

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    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by imaz View Post
    Those with the SSB HVT50D, what is your battery voltage when full?
    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.

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    SSB HVT 50D Vs SSB HVT 65D

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by imaz View Post
    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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by kelvo View Post
    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.
    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.

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