Maintenance Free battery - Blew the caps off?
Sometime last week one of the house batteries (in parallel) blew its caps and deposited acid throughout the battery compartment while plugged in parked at the house. By caps I mean the covers over the...
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RJsfishin wrote:
It was determined long ago, there is no such thing as true deep cycle.
Any battery that is designed to serve in deep cycle use, "IS" a deep cycle battery, like it or not.
This in not saying there is not good better and best in deep cycle batteries.
There are lots of batteries marked "marine" or similar that are marketed to the unsuspecting public as deep cycle. If they have CCA listed, I don't consider them to be deep cycle. I used the OPs term of "true deep cycle" to refer to a battery designed and intended for deep cycle use, not for combo or dual deep cycle and SLI use.
While I agree that there are a wide range of deep cycle batteries of different quality, if it's marketed for both starting and deep cycle use and it's marked with a CCA cold cranking amps rating, I don't consider it to be a true deep cycle battery.
