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so in order to achieve that the first

thing that you have to do is a bullet

owner is respect depth of discharge and

what that means is that you simply

cannot bring down your batteries to the

to a point where the lights get dim or

your inverter starts beeping that's way

too much that's like running two

marathons three marathons because you

can so because you can that you won't

suffer the consequences and so it's

really essential with batteries to

appreciate that the depth of this charge

should not go below especially flooded

around 50% or egm maybe depending on the

types of AGM 30% and so once you go

below that it's really an exponential

relationship between depth of discharge

and life cycle so respecting the depth

of discharge is essential for your

batteries to last longer and so that's

the number one thing and that comes with

having a battery monitor and that's why

we always recommend battery monitors to

anybody who actually uses their boat

away from the dock if you're out an

anchor and you're using your batteries

in a deep cycle application a battery

monitor is essential to know the depth

of discharge so that's the first thing

second thing is also appreciating

especially with flooded batteries is

that when you're using and you're

cycling your batteries from you know 80

to 50 percent on and off your batteries

are going to go through bulk charging

when you're in bulk charging your

batteries are going to as the current

goes through this battery the batteries

are going to heat up as we heat up

they're going to boil and that's normal

and that's part of the process the

batteries can never have the plates

exposed there that's a that's a kind of

an endgame type of event those batteries

if the plates are exposed are going to

sulfate and that whatever proportion of

the batteries of the plates we're expose

are going to give you a lot of grief

later on because the batteries are going

to heat up prematurely as you're

recharging them so it's essential as a

bowler to figure out what is the regular

maintenance cycle in terms of topping

off the fluids on a flooded lead-acid

battery and that is not something you

can never argue that you did it

for ten times and the 11th time it's

forgiven it's every single time must be

done well and there is no understanding

or apologies or excuses that you can

make to make up for not doing

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