Interstate vs autocraft batteries
05-20-2015 | 07:24 AM
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Does Deka still make batteries or anyone ever used them? I had a pair of 1000's in my old Scorpion years ago and liked them a lot. Those things took a beating and never seemed to wear down. I have been using interstate lately and happy. You could not give me Optimas, had trouble with every one I tried. They seem to have a sketchy following people either love 'em or hate 'em . . . . .
05-20-2015 | 07:59 AM
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Interstate is my second choice on batteries and I am in the camp of Optima's suck just strange that its the same company maybe its the spiral wound whatever it is....
The batteries I run are Northstar I run them because I'm scared of not starting on the water and have to be towed even though I have a Honda portable for extended times on the water there are plenty of times I roll without the generator on board. Northstar has the military contract and the batteries take a beating in those vehicles. Yep they cost more probably the most expensive on the market but for what you spend on everything else on your boat another $60 a battery seems cheap to me.
I use the 34M but they have them all
http://www.northstarbattery.com/nort...ne/marinrv.php
http://buy.northstarbattery.com/p/ns...-battery?pp=24
The batteries I run are Northstar I run them because I'm scared of not starting on the water and have to be towed even though I have a Honda portable for extended times on the water there are plenty of times I roll without the generator on board. Northstar has the military contract and the batteries take a beating in those vehicles. Yep they cost more probably the most expensive on the market but for what you spend on everything else on your boat another $60 a battery seems cheap to me.
I use the 34M but they have them all
http://www.northstarbattery.com/nort...ne/marinrv.php
http://buy.northstarbattery.com/p/ns...-battery?pp=24
05-20-2015 | 09:17 AM
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05-20-2015 | 09:26 AM
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05-20-2015 | 01:21 PM
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reading this thread reminds how much i hate re-branding and marketing BS. . . . . What . . . . The . . . . F! . . . . it makes for a very cloudy and murky marketplace (which is what they want). Whatever happened to selling a product based solely on its own merit . . . . .
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05-20-2015 | 02:00 PM
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reading this thread reminds how much i hate re-branding and marketing BS. . . . . What . . . . The . . . . F! . . . . it makes for a very cloudy and murky marketplace (which is what they want). Whatever happened to selling a product based solely on its own merit . . . . .
05-20-2015 | 02:28 PM
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reading this thread reminds how much i hate re-branding and marketing BS. . . . . What . . . . The . . . . F! . . . . it makes for a very cloudy and murky marketplace (which is what they want). Whatever happened to selling a product based solely on its own merit . . . . .
05-20-2015 | 02:43 PM
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I initially had good luck with the interstates, 27M-XHD, starting batteries, the originals lasted 3+ years so I replaced them with the same and one that I bought 10/2013 just died this past weekend, only 1 year warranty on them.
From now on I am buying these 3 yr free replacement, made by Odyssey for Sears. Same battery as the Odyssey.
http://www.sears.com/diehard-platinu...1&blockType=G1
From now on I am buying these 3 yr free replacement, made by Odyssey for Sears. Same battery as the Odyssey.
http://www.sears.com/diehard-platinu...1&blockType=G1
