Boat Battery app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8082 ratings )
Sports Reference
Developer: Mark Ryan
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.11, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 02 Jan 2013
App size: 9.33 Mb

Your boats batteries and the power they store are one of the most important resources on your boat. Running out of power at best can be bothersome and at worse dangerous. With all manner of new equipment constantly being improved and upgraded on your boat, do you know if your battery supply is still sufficient? Do you know how long your batteries will last in all your different boating scenarios?

--- Boat Battery offers the solution! ---

Boat Battery is a unique App that allows you to calculate your sailing or motor boats DC battery usage in different scenarios to enable you to adequately provision your battery bank and identify potential problems!

Use Boat Battery to:

- Calculate how long you can be at anchor before your power supplies run low! (and then graph this out!)
- Calculate how long can you sail before your batteries run out.
- Calculate your ideal battery bank size!
- Search our community database of marine electronics to find out the draw of new electronics you may be considering purchasing.
- Search our community database of charging devices, including wind, solar and engines.
- Use our knowledge bank to answer common questions about marine electronics.

Use Boat Battery to experiment with what-if scenarios

- What if I fit a wind turbine, how much longer will this give me away from port?
- What if I install a new GPS with a bigger screen?
- What if I fit a fridge into my boat?
- What if I increase my battery bank size?

The knowledge bank of skippers electrical tips include:

- Watts, Volts and Amps: A skippers guide.
- How many Amp Hours of batteries do I need?
- How do I increase my battery life?
- 12V vs 24V (and how do I wire this up?)
- How do I maintain my battery?
- How can I tell how many Amps my device draws?
- Plus more!

--- Boat Batterys Great Features ---

The Summary Tab

- Manage multiple profiles for multiple boats.
- At a glance summary of your selected profile, including:
- Total Discharge per 24 hours
- Total Charge per 24 hours
- Sum Discharge per 24 hours
- Number of days away from a recharge point before a recharge is required!
- Generate a line chart showing your batteries discharge!
- Generate a bar chart of all your discharge items!
- Boat Battery will recommend an ideal battery bank size, based on your usage.

The Discharge and Charge Tabs

- Record every single device that either takes power from or puts power back into your batteries.
- Lots of useful calculations.
- Community database of electrical devices for both "Charge" and "Discharge" items.
- Search for your device in the database.
- If your device is not listed, you have the option to share your device with other users!

The Information Tab

- A useful information bank of electrical knowledge.