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Optima For House Batteries?

October 11, 2011, 07:43:44 am

After reading a number of post on this forum I purchased a set of Optima Red Top starting batteries.  Any thoughts on using Optima deep cycle AGM batteries for the house?

Grover Dickerson
1998 U270 34' Cummins 8.3 Mechanical 325 hp
2007 Toyota Corolla in tow
Suzuki Burgman 650 scooter on a carrier.

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Re: Optima For House Batteries?

Reply #1 – October 11, 2011, 08:57:16 am

The majority of us who have moved to AGM batteries for house batteries have gone with Lifeline's: Lifeline Batteries - Marine & RV Deep Cycle AGM Batteries

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Reply #2 – October 12, 2011, 08:27:28 am

I looked at the whole Optima line of products - they don't make anything all that big, so you'd need to buy an awful lot of them to match the capacity of a pair of 8Ds.

I went with a yellow top for my starting battery, as there are devices on board that will draw power from the engine battery, such as the propane leak detector, and in my case, the HWH hydraulic levelling system.

Steve

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Reply #3 – October 12, 2011, 10:28:13 am

  http://www.dekabatteries.com/assets/base/0139.pdf

Just replaced our 3 house batteries with Deka.  $1,800.00 installed.  They are located in the middle of the bay so installation was not fun.  That price included tip to installer.  Do have 3 Optama Red Tops as starting batteries. They were quite as bad to install, but almost

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