[Tigers] Battery replacement time

[Tony Somebody]

Mauro- a generator and a deep cycle battery have nothing in common as far as a
Tiger is concerned. A genertor takes higher rpm before it actually recharges
the battery. For example at idle the battery will discharge while with an
alternator ir will charge. A deep cycyle battery is used when a low but
constant drain will be on the battery- like a trolling motor on a bass boat
and too, the deep cycle recharges at a lower charge, so that by the next
morning it has recharged and ready to use to run the trolling motor for the
day again. I cant quote numbrs but I doubt a deep cycle has as many cranking
amps while having more actual amps- one meant to have a slow drain and the
other to have high amps, used to start the bass boats engine- often 150 to 200
HP. Hope this helps.
TtT

--- On Tue, 4/20/10, m_dangelo at verizon.net <m_dangelo at verizon.net> wrote:


From: m_dangelo at verizon.net <m_dangelo at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Battery replacement time
To: Rollright at aol.com
Cc: tigers at Autox.Team.Net
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 2:53 PM


I'll be honest with you, I really like the Optima yellow top battery.  I've
used them in my Porsche cars and think they would be great in a Tiger with a
generator because they (the ones with the yellow top) can deep cycle with no
ill effects on the batteries capacity to hold a charge.  The red top is also
great, but can't deep cycle like the yellow top.  These batteries are not much
more expensive than most normal batteries.  Mauro

Apr 20, 2010 02:19:50 PM, Rollright at aol.com wrote:

Hello,

My battery is getting soggy and needs to be replaced.

I have a Delco Freedom in there now, and a relatively standard  compression
260 (though recently rebuilt).

Is there any "go to" battery out there these days? Anybody more than 
averagely pleased with what they have?


Best regards to all, (except Tod Brown)

Jim Armstrong
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