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| G-wagenaccessories Date registered: Feb 2008 Location: Vehicle(s): Mercedes-Benz  | December Special - Odyssey Battery PC1700T December Special: Odyssey Battery PC 1700T for Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen - only $250.00 plus S&H - CA residents please add 9.75% Sales Tax For more info or sizes http://www.odysseybattery.com/battspecs.html To order the PC1700T or get a quote on a different Odyssey Battery please contact: Karl@G-wagenaccessories.com
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| stevegsmith Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: SF Bay Area, CA USA Vehicle(s): 82 300GD WVO, 06 Jeep Lib CRD B99 Posts: 1301  | ||
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| nikrox Date registered: May 2008 Location: fort worth, TX Vehicle(s): 85 280GE LWB; 98 C43 | ||
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hipine Date registered: Jul 2006 Location: US, CO, Bailey Vehicle(s): 460 1980 280GE w. 617A  | RE: December Special - Odyssey Battery PC1700T nikrox - 12/1/2009 10:59 PM is this battery for ANY G model, ANY year? whats so special about it?? how does it compare to Interstate batteries? thanks _n. I'll let Karl speak to recommended aplications if he wants to but in the end, fit is based on dimensions available from the manufacturer. As for the electrical capacity, yes, the PC1700 is suitable for any G, with any motor the factory built, and for most any swapped-in motor. If you've added a bunch of electrical accessories, that's another issue, again, user's responsibility. What's special, how's it compare to x,y,z? Use your google skills and make the best choice for you. If you want to clarify any of the wealth of information that Odysey provides as to how it related to your situation, some of us here can "ground" their claims with real world experience if you have specific concerns. Biggies are the AGM completely sealed technology and the space- and electricaly-efficient rectangular cell construction design. Military use pedigree says something for durabilty and dependability to me, but my personal experience with half a dozen brands of flooded batteries and spiral AGMs is the biggest reason why I'm with Odysey now. I've punnished these things badly and they keep coming back for more. The pair of PC1200s that are in my truck now (one used for starting the 3L diesel, one a VSR-combined house bat) were used and abused in the G, then sat on the shelf a while, got used in my kids' Peg Perego car (more power!!!), left unattended for a year, then charged up and put back into service in the G where they perform flawlessly now. When I'm out in the heat my Engel fridge can draw the house battery down to dead in 2-3 days if I don't drive. It comes back to full charge with a little driving and does the cycle again. The starting battery, paired together with the house when alt V is over 13.2, fires up the diesel reliably even in 0F temps like this morning and does it day in and day out with that small charge variation that a starting battery sees, and also performs perfectly. Every few months I swap the battery postions to get them even use, something you can't really do if you need dedicated purpose batteries for deep cycling and high crank current as some manufacturers recommend. That's my personal view, others' are different, and each individual has to determine how their own needs are to be met. Happy googling.  -Dave G. PS - some threads: http://69.9.37.142/disc/forums/showthread.php?tid=13787&posts=23&hi... http://69.9.37.142/disc/forums/showthread.php?tid=3235&posts=20&hig... Edited by hipine 12/2/2009 10:33 AM | |
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| Indiana Drew Expert Date registered: Feb 2007 Location: Houston Tx Vehicle(s): 2002 G500 LWB, 1980 280GE SWB (Sold), S500 Posts: 2223  | ||
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| hipine Date registered: Jul 2006 Location: US, CO, Bailey Vehicle(s): 460 1980 280GE w. 617A | RE: December Special - Odyssey Battery PC1700T Indiana Drew - 12/2/2009 9:19 AM ...You mentioned the recharging of the Odyssey batteries - do I recall correctly that that this style of battery requires a different style of charger from others?... Well, "requires" is a big word, isn't it? I bit the bullet for a nice multi-stage charger that can do just what the Odysey site reccommends. My main reason for doing it was that this was the time that I was trying to bring these two PC1200s back from long neglect and abuse. They were deeply discharged and had been so for a long time. I thought my best chance to get them back was to charge them "by the book" so I bought a nice charger from the Xantrex people that did the job perfectly. Another contributor was that I didn't have a charger to fill the niche between my 200A "engine starter" and my 1.25A "Battery Tender" and the Xantrex with it's 40/20/2 selectability was perfect to fill that role. The other side of that charging coin is that the batteries are charged every day in the truck, and when I first bought them, all I did was drop them in the truck and drive off hapilly satisfied. They always worked great. Even when I discharge the house battery to the point the fridge won't run (I don't know exactly what OCV that is), it comes back fine when charged by the relatively crude vehicle charging system and VSR combiner (yes there would be some cross-battery curent rush when a discharged battery is combined with the fully charged staring battery if the two were combined manually, but the VSR in auto mode makes sure this only happens after the alternator is supporting approx. 14v supply to both) So there you have it. I bought a new charger to adress some needs I had. Most people won't face those needs and as far as I can tell, there's no problem just dropping them in the truck and running. -Dave G. PS - and since I linked that other thread, I should give an update on the PriorityStart module I had in use there. Long story short, I had one in both vehicles at one time, but I'm not using either any more. The one in the G got cooked when it tried to disconnect while I was cranking the motor one time. The one in the van was doing lots of annoying false-disconnects even when the (Optima red-top) battery was fine and everything was installed and connected per the instructions. I decided the hassle and potential failure points of these things weren't worth having them in the system in my aplications. But if you're likely to drain batteries by leaving lights on, they might be just the thing for you. If you want to try the one I took off the van, you can have it for the shipping cost. It might work better in your ap than it did in mine. Send a PM or something if you want it. Edited by hipine 12/2/2009 12:25 PM | |
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| G-wagenaccessories Date registered: Feb 2008 Location: Vehicle(s): Mercedes-Benz | Re: December Special - Odyssey Battery PC1700T autonovice - 12/2/2009 8:27 AM Karl, Would be great to see your signature mods for the battery holders, terminal insulators ... for all G series I prefer a G-Wagen Accessories package deal which includes these items so it would just be plug-and-play for us. When I was in the market a few years back, I wanted to get Varta AGM but settled for Interstate due to huge price different and shipping costs. Dear autonovice, the MSRP price of the Odyssey PC1700T has been set at $380.88 and the unbelievable December Special from G-wagenaccessories.com is only priced at $250.00 plus S&H (CA Sales Tax 9.75%)...... To offer a package deal, we would have to raise that special price...... We are able to offer an installation kit to any novice, it would consist of pre-warmed work gloves, an all-around-vision pair of safety glasses, the needed spacer v.1.2.1, the rubber pole protector and the 38 page installation manual (sorry no hard-bound edition) - all this would certainly help the faint-heart-ed confidently to complete a changeover to the Odyssey PC1700T battery. We have included some preliminary pictures of such an installation kit - actual install kit might be shipped out differently (IMG_2694.jpg) (IMG_2692 (Medium).jpg) (IMG_2696.jpg) (IMG_2700 (Medium).jpg) Attachments ---------------- IMG_2694.jpg (74KB - 2 downloads) IMG_2692 (Medium).jpg (78KB - 2 downloads) IMG_2696.jpg (75KB - 2 downloads) IMG_2700 (Medium).jpg (81KB - 3 downloads) | |
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