Optima Batteries For Our Trucks

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Thanks again Thomas.

 

[JLEONARD]

Well at any of those prices it's a good value. I am on my 4th Ct winter with a single red top and all is well so far.

I think that is excellent performance.

Jay

 

[Concrete Solutions]

I like the thought of the Optima design batteries.

I went to the optima site and looked at the batteries, and for my use

I am thinking on the yellow top dual use, I like the thought of limited

inverter use and limited additional lighting without having to run

the engine to keep the bats charged, yes I realize you take a slight

cca hit of about 50 cca per battery but still leaving 1500 cca with the 2

installed.



The extended ability to draw down the batteries with low loads is very

attractive to me. Start only bats I admit are best if thats the only thing you

use them for but if you want run some 12 v floods for 2-3 hours or run a few intermitant tools off an inverter while the lights are on I know it will run down

start only bats pretty quick. Yes separate batteries just for this would be

best. But location, wiring, and charging circuits would be a MAJOR pain

to set up and I don't feel my use justifies it. I planned on running some

well protected # 2 wire to the back of my flat bed tool box to house the inverter and connections to run my additional loads and to provide a

point to jump other vehicals from. I have a couple of new military

connectors (HEAVY DUTY) to use. I also want to run a warning strobe

or two (Yellow) pretty low drain, but over a few hours... when I'm working

near traffic.



Whats your opinion of the yellow tops for my application on an

03 HO 4X4 3500 SRW 6 SP.



Rich