Meridian Marine Batteries

[PorFin]

Anyone know what happened to Meridian Marine batteries?

I first read about them a while ago in Nigel Calder's maintenance bible, and even checked out their web page. Sounded promising at the time -- new technology to effecively double the ratio of available holding capacity to battery volume.

However, Meridian seems to have been abducted by Atlantians (you know, the nautical aliens) and Google seaches turn up jack squat... Could be that I'm looking in the wrong places, or maybe they were absorbed by another company.

Can anyone shed some light? IIRC Meridian operated out of the PNW, FWIW.

Puzzled,
PF

[PorFin]

Well, don't I feel like an a$$...

Found a trace of Meridian on another forum, but nothing from within the last year.

Next question (which still relates to the OP title) -- Does anyone have any experience (first hand, sea stories, or even random scuttlebutt) about the Meridian batteries?

[sailingdog]

BTW, this might be of interest to you:

PDF File

From the PDF:

Meridian Marine
Progressive Products. Meridi-
an Marine Progressive Prod-
ucts is the marine distribu-
tion and marketing arm of
the Northstar Battery Compa-
ny. Boat Electric has been
selling the Meridian Marine
batteries, and business is so
brisk that employees have
resorted to hooking the
Meridian batteries on display
together with zip ties.

[sailingdog]

BTW, they appear to have changed their name, and are now located here or available from here.

[dohenyboy]

Before Meridan completely closed their doors, their website was operational but they had no batteries to sell. I talked to someone there and he said they stopped manufacturing. I will call Monday and see if they are alive again.