Battery amp/hour ratings
--rant on-- My battery is getting weak and not holding a charge as long as it should so I have been doing online searches. It seems nobody wants to show amp/hour ratings online for deep cycle batteri...
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wa8yxm wrote:
The Exception: OPTIMA batteries are 60% of the above (Other 40% is wasted space that is air).
Optima did for a short while sell an exception to themselves and I have one:
It's a Yellow Top Group 31 size, rated at 95 amp hours, that I've never weighed - but it's a back-buster to lift. They soon took it off the commercial market because the U.S. military contracted to buy their entire output of it.
This Optima easily weighs more than the new 72 lb. Group 31 Fullriver's I recently bought. It's a mystery to me how this Optima can weigh so much with it's cylindrical cells being the only place containing it's lead. :h
