CHOOSING THE RIGHT BATTERY

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT BATTERY

By: Ron Wilson

March 20, 2003.... Lousy weather! Well it looked pretty bad from my front room, as I only got outside long enough to take out the garbage and do a little work on my trout trolling boat. I also saw lots of fishing and hunting equipment as I put up a few shelves in my hunting and fishing room. Now I can gather more necessities (junk)!

Now you know I didn't do any fishing this weekend so I had to come up with a can story for you to read. You
know one of those supposedly educational masterpieces that will keep you glued onto every word! Well forget it I am not that well versed.

But hopefully, with a few words of wit here and there, I hope to teach you a little bit about what I have learned through the years of writing my column. So here we go!

When I first bought a boat years ago, I soon found out that I had nothing but battery problems. I bought good batteries but they just didn't seem to hold up. They wouldn't hold a charge long enough, or for some reason they failed to get charged up enough, or they just went dead on me. It seemed like no matter what brand I bought 3 years was the maximum they would last in the boat!

In a few years I had 3 different types of fishing boats to play with, an ocean boat, a riverboat and a small bass boat. I would charge the batteries and by the time I got to the lake and turned the key on the starter, sometimes the only thing I heard was the click-click-click of the motor telling me that there wasn't enough juice from the battery to crank it over. I would have to take the battery cables off and clean the battery posts or the connecting cables and finally the motor would start. I guess a lot of my problems were that I had to learn my boating lessons the hard way to start with!

It was the family joke that pop had battery brushes everywhere in his boats so they would be close at hand to clean the battery post in the boat when needed!

Several years ago I met battery salesman and Black Bass Fishing Professional Norval Pimentel, who sold me
some Thermo Oil Packed batteries for my boats. I soon threw away all my brushes, as I not only installed them
in my boats, but also in my vehicles. The reason was a simple one for me. No more cleaning the posts and the fact that they wouldn't blow up in my face when I hooked them to a battery charger. Thermo's do not buildup gases from charging, and that was a main selling point for me! My youngest son Donald had that happen to him, and it left his garage and truck with battery acid everywhere. Fortunately for him he was not in the garage when it blew up.

I have been fishing and riding in bass boats for 15 plus years now and you would not believe how many times I have been with guys that have had battery problems. More than once I would look at the batteries, and they would have a $25 - $50 dollar cheapo batteries running their $20,000 plus bass boat or ocean boat. I could never figure that out as they would have the best fishing equipment money could buy and instead of using some of the best batteries on the market they would opt for the cheapest when it counted the most!

I would tell them about Thermo Oil Packed Batteries and they would say "oh they are way to expensive" or "I
prefer this brand or that brand of battery in my equipment". I would just sit back and laugh to myself as I had found out over the years that its not the brand of battery you are paying for, but the oil that goes in the battery.

A Thermo Oil Packed Battery can be any type battery on the market that is refillable. All Norval has to do is take any battery and add the special extra life giving, gas reducing oil and it becomes a Thermo Oil Packed Battery.

If you would like more information or to purchase Thermo Oil Batteries, call (209) 649-4070 or see there website at www.thermobatteries.com.