Thread: optima Battery

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Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Pat

so in a marina---take the batteries out of the boat, put on a rack and hook up a charge????This I guess was in around November???How cold was that water after a 440 dash???? and did you jump in head first? or feet first????

no most of the time you needed the batterys to fog the engines up so it was on trailer or on a lift.if your asking if i was in the water that would be yes . no we started to rack and stack boats at the end of july by november we were just about done .it been some time but a two man crew i think we prep out over five boats a day EZ.one of the last thing was put the batteries away

As pops stated, the Optima redtop in my t bucket was constantly found dead after sitting 30 days or so. I do have a small battery tender on it and never ever have a problem now. I just installed an Optima Redtop in my ZO6 Vette 2 weeks ago. That car sits under a cover alot and so far so good. I think the key is either driving them as much as possible OR keeping a tender on them at all times.

My boat has 3 batteries (2 group 24 starting and 1 group 27 deep cycle) I keep a tender on them at all times and they are good to go EVERY time I hit the key now (including the deep cycle house battery) These are all flooded, old style batteries.

I say drive them or put a tender on them.
Don Jr.