RITA battery question

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RITA battery question

Baz421 · Guru

Rita and Ritar appear to be the same,,, ex China. Rita Power is company name and Ritar is web name it seems. See this,

http://ahoo.en.ec21.com/company_info.jsp

Ritar say this on a website -

RA12-120 is a general purpose battery with 10 years design life time in float charging use. As with all Ritar batteries, all RA models are rechargeable, highly efficient, leak proof and maintenance free.

This Aussie site says its OK for caravans ( see the tech specs)

http://www.rpc.com.au/catalog/ritar-ra-series-se

This mob sell DC Ritars -

http://www.fridge-and-solar.net/batteries.htm

This mob sell RA series in Oz and say OK for caravans -

http://www.everybattery.com.au/proddetail.php?prod=RA12-120

Hope this helps. Cheers Baz

allinone · Senior Member

Wow after reading these posts I am totally confused.
But I have deep cycle marine batteries. I was told by a battery dealer that the marine deep cyle had high capacity cranking amps as opposed to the standard deep cycle batteries.
So I suppose if my truck batteries go down I can use my house batteries to start up without having to worry about damaging the batteries.
Hope this makes sense,mas it does to me.

Baz421 · Guru

allinone wrote:
Wow after reading these posts I am totally confused.
But I have deep cycle marine batteries. I was told by a battery dealer that the marine deep cyle had high capacity cranking amps as opposed to the standard deep cycle batteries.
So I suppose if my truck batteries go down I can use my house batteries to start up without having to worry about damaging the batteries.
Hope this makes sense,mas it does to me.

Depends entirely on the design of the battery,,,,,, I like to think I'm a bit cluey with regard to batteries,,,, but I bought a deep cycle marine battery and it wouldn't crank over my 115hp 4 stroke very well at all.

As a general rule marine batteries have thicker plates and connections to avoid problems of plates and connections "breaking" apart due to vibration and creating an open circuit, which simply means there is no continous circuit inside the battery.

So,,, if your battery starts your boat OK you should have a suitable battery.

-- Edited by Baz421 on Wednesday 24th of July 2013 08:23:25 PM

muller1 · Member

Batteries.

I have been told in good authority that vehicle batteries are intended to have the capability of delivering high amps for cranking and after that to be on full charge till charger up.

Also when in a vehicle or boat with the engine running normally you are putting back in to the battery what you are taking out plus a surplus to recharge the battery.

My Mercedes ML 270 for example has a 190 amp alternator and is water cooled but most cars will have at least a 75 amp alternator as this type of battery in NEVER meant to be run way down and then fully recharged hence the name deep cycle on an RV.

RV or deep cycle batteries are designed to be run way down with a low amperage draw on them ie deep cycled then recharged, they are NOT designed to be used for engine starting as this puts a massive draw on them possibly up to 600 amp cranking and this will destroy them quick time.

Deep cycle or RV batteries are the way to go.

Mike Muller from Scotland