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Optima Battery question #14316728 03/15/22 11:33 PM
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I bought a boat this past year with 3 optima blue tops. I checked my cranking battery and it was purchased 3/11/16. I had it tested at Autozone and it tested good with 100% charge. How long should I expect one of those to last? That seems old to me.....based on my experience with interstate and the like. Thanks.


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14316941 03/16/22 04:49 AM
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Optima is superior IMO to the interstate battery. I had a red top on a skeet thrower that I charged and charged for about 8 years before ot finally quit taking a good charge.

Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14317012 03/16/22 12:09 PM
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You may have one from before the company changed hands , they are not the same after keep running it

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My cranking battery, an optima group 34 Bluetop, I removed from my previous boat 3 years ago. It is still the first to go “full charge” every time I plug in the boat. No signs of slowing down. My house battery is a bluetop group 27. It is discharging a little more these days. It was one of trolling batteries from the last boat. One of the group 31 blue tops is now in my truck.

The life cycle of any battery is determined pretty much by the amount/number of deep discharges. They are a better battery than a lot of other brands. But, like a lot of things, they don’t last forever.

Optima has priced the new batteries a lot higher…close enough to make the lower cost lithiums a close topic when decision time eventually comes along.


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14317922 03/17/22 02:42 AM
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I have had Optimas last over eight years, I sold the boat and don’t know how far they went.
Make sure your charger supplies 10 amps and up to 14.6 volts to EACH battery.

If it does NOT your batteries will last about a year. You will lose capacity after each charging session.

Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Tiltman] #14317950 03/17/22 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Tiltman
You may have one from before the company changed hands , they are not the same after keep running it



yep, johnson control (wally world batteries) owns them now and the quality seems to have dropped.


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14318009 03/17/22 05:31 AM
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I am not going Lithium...yet. What brand of batteries are recommended since Optima has slipped?


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14318067 03/17/22 12:05 PM
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For cranking and graphs I use a 200 minute group 31 AGM made by East Penn

But for trolling motor Amped outdoors single 36 and I will never use anything else


If weight isn’t and issue the above mentioned group 31’s are animals for TM

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Originally Posted by Tiltman
For cranking and graphs I use a 200 minute group 31 AGM made by East Penn

But for trolling motor Amped outdoors single 36 and I will never use anything else


If weight isn’t and issue the above mentioned group 31’s are animals for TM



This duracell is an east penn as well as deka. Both come in agm


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14319388 03/18/22 04:05 PM
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Thanks guys. I bought the Duracell 31 AGM at Sam's yesterday. I captain a HS team that has back to back on Ray Roberts this weekend and I couldn't afford to have a battery issue this weekend and I didn't have time to shop anymore. Gonna roll with the Cell!


GO -------> fish

"Spit in his mouth, Son. It will make him grow bigger faster"
My late grandfather Bill Chapman (and former lake patrolman at Lake Tyler, TX)
I have spent the past 50 years spitting in their mouths...increasing the size of Texas fish with every spit!

P.B. 9.4 lbs - Lake Fork
2018 Skeeter ZX250 Yamaha 250 SHO
Re: Optima Battery question [Re: Top Waters] #14324185 03/23/22 05:56 PM
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Lithium seems dangerous. Do a quick YouTube search on lithium phone batteries catching fire. Holy cow! And that is a super small lithium battery. Can you imagine the fire and related damage from a 60 lb lithium battery on a boat?


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Re: Optima Battery question [Re: AggieDave] #14324214 03/23/22 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by AggieDave
Lithium seems dangerous. Do a quick YouTube search on lithium phone batteries catching fire. Holy cow! And that is a super small lithium battery. Can you imagine the fire and related damage from a 60 lb lithium battery on a boat?


Different kind of lithium. Marine ones are LifePO4 not a hazard like cell phone batteries

Re: Optima Battery question [Re: tmd11111] #14324262 03/23/22 07:04 PM
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Lithium seems dangerous. Do a quick YouTube search on lithium phone batteries catching fire. Holy cow! And that is a super small lithium battery. Can you imagine the fire and related damage from a 60 lb lithium battery on a boat?


Different kind of lithium. Marine ones are LifePO4 not a hazard like cell phone batteries


Did not know that. Thanks for the info. Was concerned that if a 5 oz. lithium cell phone battery can bring down a 747, an 800 oz. lithium battery might destroy a small town.


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