From: Ronzo (rojoha@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 11:02:40 PST
The US Gov't chose the 6TL as a standard for 90 percent of the MV's it had
in inventory only to simplify the logistics chain. The 6TL has thicker
plates than most batteries, only because the gubbamint had to think of a
worse case operating scenario. If ya loose a plate due to vibration on a K
Mart battery and it goes Tango Uniform at a bad time, you're only
inconvenienced, versus dead with destroyed equipment and troops/cargo in a
tactical ( pitched battle/bugout) scenario. The old 'For the want of a
nail,....' scenario.
You can find much higher CCA's on commercial batteries with smaller
sizes than 6TL's, there are just tradeoffs.
Here are a bunch of links I accumulated while replacing batteries on the
M35 and M1010.
First, the Mother Of All Battery links pertaining to mil batteries,
TM 9-6140-200-14, OPERATOR'S, UNIT,
DIRECT SUPPORT AND GENERAL SUPPORT
MAINTENANCE MANUAL FOR
LEAD-ACID STORAGE BATTERIES
at ETM online. 132 pages, about a 1 MB download. Basically the
'Everything you ever wanted to know (or didn't) about the care and feeding
of military batteries for tactical equipment.'
Go here:
http://www.logsa.army.mil/etms/find_etm.cfm
Enter this number in the PIN box 034044
Scroll to the bottom of this link for quick 6TL spec...
http://www.battery-usa.com/superior3.htm
Another good one is the East Penn Company who makes Deka batteries. This
link is their products page which has a link to their Ordnance products pdf
download link and a battery care pdf.
http://www.eastpenn-deka.com/products/index.html
And a bunch of others:
http://www.dscr.dla.mil/PRODUCTS/bcicvc/cat3.htm
http://www.tbympl.com/body_batteries1.html
http://www.douglasbattery.com/PDFs/31_Fleet_Series_Complete_Brochure.pdf
http://www.interstatebatteryofdet.com/Commercial_Specs.htm
http://www.optimabatteries.com/contactUs.asp
http://www.1st-optima-batteries.com/
http://www.odysseyfactory.com/
Wal Mart makes good, cheap batteries, Optima makes slick, expensive
ones....
It's all in what ya want to spend, more than what you really need.
Happy Surfing
Bonzo III
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark B. Anderson" <mark@aasurplus.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: [MV] need answer for battery issue
> Hi Guys,
>
> Ok My m-220 needs 2 6TL batteries. Can I just buy any standard battery to
> replace this or do I need a 6TL if I need the 6TL's were in Canada can you
> buy them.
> what's the cold cracking power? any help here would be great. Also I'm
going
> to drain fuel were can I get fuel filters in Canada?
>
> thanks.
>
>
> Mark Anderson
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