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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
Got a wholesale club card? Check out your club, Sam's and BJ's carries marine batteries. Unless the battery is on sale, you won't find a cheaper good quality battery.
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Yes, I belong to Sam's Club and I've been meaning to check and see what they have available. Ishoot's got a link to a decent-looking battery I'm going to check out.
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Originally Posted by 4Fun
One note about the new smart chargers. I could not charge my very dead battery with my battery tender or smart Shumacher charger. I had to charge it with an old school charger until it had enough voltage for the smart charger to work.
Maybe you can bring your optima back to life?
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I found a thread on the web with a post from an Optima tech explaining how to try to revive a dead Optima when the charger won't even see it as being connected. I'm going to give that a shot and maybe I can salvage this battery for future automotive use.
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Originally Posted by ishoot308
W.B.
I would recommend two marine deep cycle AGM batteries. These batteries are made for starting power and deep discharging the best of both worlds. Because they are AGM, the discharge rate when not in use is extremely low compared to other battery types.
For a specific brand, you can't beat this Duracell Marine AGM battery for the price.
http://www.samsclub.com/sams/shop/pr...navAction=push
Compare the specs to any other battery out there and you will see what I mean.
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The specs ARE impressive; 200 min. reserve capacity and 1000 CA. It sounds like a dual-purpose battery (even though it's not listed as such on Sam's website) which unfortunately is usually the most expensive of the 3 marine battery types. The price listed for that battery you linked to at Sam's is $166 (and it IS available in Concord!) which is almost $20 less than a new Optima marine
starting battery; I'm seeing Optima marine
dual-purpose batteries listed at $205 and up! I was leaning towards another Optima (marine this time around!) but I may get this Duracell instead.
Thanks for all the great input everyone! I should be picking up a battery somewhere the beginning of next week so I'll be ready for July 4th! See you on the lake!
