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What battery should i buy?
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<blockquote data-quote="moparmagician" data-source="post: 1012754" data-attributes="member: 17598"><p>For what's its worth, at a local northwest warehouse, the warrenty rate of an optima is about 10 to 1 over the orbital. If you really want a killer battery, the orbital extreme is the best. Pricey, but it can double duty as a starting and a deep cycle battery. The biggest thing most (including me) people do is not charge these batteries properly. I have an optima that is over 8 years old, it was constantly dead after sitting in my pickup for extended periods of time. I finally asked the rep. how to charge it. No more than 5 amps over a 24 hour period of time. If you zap them harder than that, they simply float the charge over the top and won't absorb it. Since charging mine that way, it hasn't been dead since. And think about it, if you charge it with an alternator, way too many amps also. So trickle charge them once in a while.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moparmagician, post: 1012754, member: 17598"] For what's its worth, at a local northwest warehouse, the warrenty rate of an optima is about 10 to 1 over the orbital. If you really want a killer battery, the orbital extreme is the best. Pricey, but it can double duty as a starting and a deep cycle battery. The biggest thing most (including me) people do is not charge these batteries properly. I have an optima that is over 8 years old, it was constantly dead after sitting in my pickup for extended periods of time. I finally asked the rep. how to charge it. No more than 5 amps over a 24 hour period of time. If you zap them harder than that, they simply float the charge over the top and won't absorb it. Since charging mine that way, it hasn't been dead since. And think about it, if you charge it with an alternator, way too many amps also. So trickle charge them once in a while. [/QUOTE]
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