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[sdm111]

Ok thanks flypen. I run mine in a garbage can once or twice a week and after each time put a tender on it till full charge then take it off cause I use the elec fence extension cord to do it. Was wondering if I was messing up the battery doing so. Thanks again

 

[B123]

Way off topic but if someone could help if they know. Is it true that deep cycle batteries specifically a boat battery should be run down all the way before charged as opposed to "topping off" with a battery tender from just starting the engine because the battery will develop a "memory" and only charge to the level it keeps getting run down to if done time after time? Thanks

Deep cycle batteries are used on battery back up sump pumps too. The guy at the battery store said they are able to handle the wide swings of being charged and run down, maybe the don't develop a memory, he didn't say. But with battery backup sump pumps, they are hooked up to a battery tender to keep them topped off. If I understood him correctly, they are just a little tougher. That being said, I buy the cheap lawnmower batteries for my fence charger and run them down and charge them back up, even though the same guy said I shouldn't because they would last very long. Dollar for dollar, the cheap batteries serve me better in the fence chargers than the more expensive deep cycles. Go figure!

 

[B123]

Rabbits gone, quail gone, goats gone, doves almost gone. Over 100 chickens/chicks gone.

But at least no mice, no rats, no raccoons, no possums, no squirrels. And I dont have worry about coyotes in the yard.

I thought you just got the quail. Did they have some bad luck too or find a new home?

 

[JShubin]

I thought you just got the quail. Did they have some bad luck too or find a new home?

2nd day a hawk killed three.. Up against the cage with talons in and trying to pull them out.

So I changed their cage to something the hawk couldnt get into... and I left for work... came home to find my dog(s) had torn open wire and found 3 dead quail... rest are missing (presumed eaten).

 

[sdm111]

Deep cycle batteries are used on battery back up sump pumps too.  The guy at the battery store said they are able to handle the wide swings of being charged and run down, maybe the don't develop a memory, he didn't say.  But with battery backup sump pumps, they are hooked up to a battery tender to keep them topped off.  If I understood him correctly, they are just a little tougher.  That being said, I buy the cheap lawnmower batteries for my fence charger and run them down and charge them back up, even though the same guy said I shouldn't because they would last very long.  Dollar for dollar, the cheap batteries serve me better in the fence chargers than the more expensive deep cycles.  Go figure!

thanks somewhere through my journeys I remember something about being told deep cycle batteries are made to and should be ran down to dead then charged up to full charged as opposed to being topped off like a car battery. I just got a new battery a few months ago and it was pricey so didn't want to mess it up. On another note, I assume you're fence is battery operated at night and solar charged during the day

A few yrs ago I researched pretty extensively doing a battery bank, panels and inverters for hurricanes and although it would be badass I went with a generator due to cost

 

[roosterhavoc]

Just use a paddle. Bring an extra one though just in case. I gotta get me a new one in a day or so. Turns out out they ain't so good as a push pole.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Thanks to the oversized Oompa Loompa we went from the 2nd lowest gas tax to the 6th highest. What a pos!

 

[sdm111]

Just use a paddle. Bring an extra one though just in case. I gotta get me a new one in a day or so. Turns out out they ain't so good as a push pole.

ha, what happened u pushed yourself off and it stayed there?

 

[centrarchid]

2nd day a hawk killed three.. Up against the cage with talons in and trying to pull them out.

So I changed their cage to something the hawk couldnt get into... and I left for work... came home to find my dog(s) had torn open wire and found 3 dead quail... rest are missing (presumed eaten).

On hawk side, I cover three sides and top of pens so hawk cannot worry chicks into corner or side where they try to get through wire even when hawk comes around to grab them.

 

[roosterhavoc]

ha, what happened u pushed yourself off and it stayed there?

Nah it just cracked across the middle. Still usable for now. I break em like that in winter all the time. They ain't the best for breaking ice either.