Hobie Revolution/Adventure FF battery location?

Where have Revolution and Adventure owners mounted your FF batteries?

One of the great things about the Revo is the internal access.  I can reach almost anywhere on the inside of the boat, and there are a lot of potential locations for the Sealed Lead Acid FF battery.

My current favorite is between the mast mount and the mirage drive cut out.   It does not interfere with stowing the Wheelez wheels, and it does not interfere with stuffing the sides with pool noodles. 

Other potential locations are well up in the nose, well back in the stern (even in the skeg), and under the seat.  I could even hang it in the nose with an OK battery bag.

Currently mine is hanging in a bag on a bunge cord stretched between two pad eyes just aft of the mirage drive location and infront of the center hatch. Still thinking this through because of the working with packing for wilderness camping.

I did pick up the following quote regarding coiling the transducer cable:
"You wired your depthfinder directly to the battery, as the manufacturer recommended, right? Good.  You wound excess transducer cable in a figure 8, not a magnetic-field inducing, round coil, right? Ok, Let's find noise..... Quoted from page 69 of How to Catch Salmon, Sturgeon, Lingcod, Rockfish, and Halibut along the Pacific Coast by Wayne Heinz.
I did not stop to realize previously that the round winding of the transducer cable results in a magnetic field.
Hope this tad of information is helpful.
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Currently mine is hanging in a bag on a bunge cord stretched between two pad eyes just aft of the mirage drive location and infront of the center hatch. Still thinking this through because of the working with packing for wilderness camping.

Found a description and photos in an older thread - nice.  Picked up a watertight box at Walmart this afternoon.  

I did pick up the following quote regarding coiling the transducer cable:
"You wired your depthfinder directly to the battery, as the manufacturer recommended, right? Good.  You wound excess transducer cable in a figure 8, not a magnetic-field inducing, round coil, right? Ok, Let's find noise..... Quoted from page 69 of How to Catch Salmon, Sturgeon, Lingcod, Rockfish, and Halibut along the Pacific Coast by Wayne Heinz.
I did not stop to realize previously that the round winding of the transducer cable results in a magnetic field.  Hope this tad of information is helpful.

It is probably a trivial effect, but after some thought I don't think winding in a figure 8 will negate a magnetic field.  To prevent a wire from creating a magnetic field you need current in the wire to be moving in the opposite direction than in adjacent wires, and equal lengths of each direction.  A figure 8 does not do this.  The way to do this is to lay out the excess cable, fold it in half, then coil the excess - a double coil.  In this way you have the current in half the length moving in the opposite direction to the current in the other half.  

Thanks for that explanation and bit of advice, demonick.
I like the aboriginal look of that coil, too.

Or cut away the excess cable.

Or cut away the excess cable.

I am terrified of cutting my transducer cable.  I am handy with a soldering iron, but I am afraid to introduce any impedance issues with a splice to 5 conductors.  I contacted Hummingbird to try and get another connector in the hopes I could cut the 20' cable and just put another connector on it, thereby avoiding splicing.  No go on the connector from Hummingbird, and I couldn't find anything online in pretty extensive searching.

I think you guys might be over thinking this. I know plenty of people who coil their extra trans wire and haven't had any problems catching fish.

As to where to put the battery, wherever it fits. I think overall most people don't mount their batteries to anything.

Z

I think you guys might be over thinking this. I know plenty of people who coil their extra trans wire and haven't had any problems catching fish......

Z

   Yea Zee!  I've not even gotten around to getting the fish finder, and I still find fish! Keeping it basic ain't such a bad thing either.

DON"T CUT your cable!!!  Just asking for trouble with corrosion and possible signal loss/interference.

I think you guys might be over thinking this. I know plenty of people who coil their extra trans wire and haven't had any problems catching fish.

As to where to put the battery, wherever it fits. I think overall most people don't mount their batteries to anything.

Although I did post the double-coil, I gotta go with Z on this.  I've just had the excess cable single coiled and zip tied nice and neat. 

Now as to not having problems catching fish ... that's an entirely different matter.