Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
05-21-2006, 06:56 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
05-21-2006, 07:02 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by offshoredrillin
My apologies, I knew it was one of the big manufacturers.
"Most auto batteries are made by just three manufacturers, Delphi, Exide, and Johnson Controls Industries. Each makes batteries sold under several different brand names.
Delphi makes ACDelco and some EverStart (Wal-Mart) models. Exide makes Champion, Exide, Napa, and some EverStart batteries. Johnson Controls makes Diehard (Sears), Duralast (AutoZone), Interstate, Kirkland (Costco), Motorcraft (Ford), and some EverStarts."
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http://shopping.yahoo.com/premium/co...ml?id=95700426
"Most auto batteries are made by just three manufacturers, Delphi, Exide, and Johnson Controls Industries. Each makes batteries sold under several different brand names.
Delphi makes ACDelco and some EverStart (Wal-Mart) models. Exide makes Champion, Exide, Napa, and some EverStart batteries. Johnson Controls makes Diehard (Sears), Duralast (AutoZone), Interstate, Kirkland (Costco), Motorcraft (Ford), and some EverStarts."
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http://shopping.yahoo.com/premium/co...ml?id=95700426
Question is then ... who makes OPTIMA? It looks very similar to the EXIDE linked above. But I don't know $h!t about batteries and my EXIDEs are dead after a year so prob. not.
05-21-2006, 08:50 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by Shorgasm
Autozone Duralast dual-purpose 1000...$60 each.They are the deal of deals.Warranty great..reserve great..price unreal..dual posts..
05-21-2006, 09:02 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
I use optima batteries in my cars and have in my boats and the only complaint I have is if one does die you have to trickle charge the battery. Lately I will say I have had one battery which was a red top battery go bad after only two months of usage. Other then that the marine batteries I never had much of a problem with,except when I did kill them I had to remove them from the boat and trickle charge them and put other batteries in the boat that day to go boating.
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by rastaboatin
I use optima batteries in my cars and have in my boats and the only complaint I have is if one does die you have to trickle charge the battery. Lately I will say I have had one battery which was a red top battery go bad after only two months of usage. Other then that the marine batteries I never had much of a problem with,except when I did kill them I had to remove them from the boat and trickle charge them and put other batteries in the boat that day to go boating.
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05-21-2006, 09:09 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Not sure what ones you have, but not charging properly will take years off your batteries. Here is a link on how to charge EXIDES.
http://www.exideworld.com/faq/faq_marine.html
http://www.exideworld.com/faq/faq_marine.html
05-21-2006, 09:11 PM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by Sydwayz
I have 4 Optima Blue Tops, in a twin engine boat, with 3 amps and a capacitor among other things powering the stereo. I have been very pleased with my Optimas.
http://www.batteriesareus.com/index....ges&pages_id=2
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by kswest
Hey, just got home .. ran some errands after we came back in. Was hot as hell out today. Dale saw me as I was coming into harbortown and he came in for a second to say hi. His Baja sounds mean with those 502s ...
Anyways ...
1. Boat is still in the water but will be on a work stand tomorrow night so I can get the motors flushed. I'll prob. be there around 5:30 or so if you can/want to come by.
2. I pulled the two old batteries out ... they were gel-cell EXIDEs and look like there are still under the "18 month money-back" guarantee. They have May 05 manufacturing stickers on them. I'll just have to find a place that sells EXIDE and explain the situation. I did get one of those rechargable jump-start boxes just in case.
Kyle
Anyways ...
1. Boat is still in the water but will be on a work stand tomorrow night so I can get the motors flushed. I'll prob. be there around 5:30 or so if you can/want to come by.
2. I pulled the two old batteries out ... they were gel-cell EXIDEs and look like there are still under the "18 month money-back" guarantee. They have May 05 manufacturing stickers on them. I'll just have to find a place that sells EXIDE and explain the situation. I did get one of those rechargable jump-start boxes just in case.
Kyle
I'll call you this afternoon.
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05-22-2006, 07:41 AM
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Re: Marine Battery - Which Brand to Choose
Originally Posted by kswest
Question is then ... who makes OPTIMA? It looks very similar to the EXIDE linked above. But I don't know $h!t about batteries and my EXIDEs are dead after a year so prob. not.
