Originally Posted by b00gers
What kind of car?
What is in the system?
What is the condition of the current electrical system?
1. '94 accord
2. Kenwood DVD Reciever XXV-05V, Kenwood 4 channel AMP XXV-02A, and a Kenwood GPS Unit KNA-G510
3. Eletrical system should be fine, everything in the vechicle was factory until recently.
Originally Posted by jumpman83
It's Optima, and I love them. I've had a blue top (34m deep cycle marine battery, 120 minute reserve) for something like 4 years or something. It's survived getting chucked out of the
car in a crash and flew down a hill, getting drained all the time, starts on damn near no juice, and an 800w system with no capacitor. throughout that entire time. So yeah, get a blue or yellow top. Yellow is made for stereos, but blue works extremely well too and looks cooler. And I think the reserve is WWWAAAAAYYYY underrated.
Rule of thumb is 1 farad per 1,000 watts, but wait for B00gers' opinon, he knows more than I do. (and I don't know why he's asking one of those questions, and I can only assume on another of them, lol)
Isn't a blue top for marine usage? Anyway, local store told me that a red top would work out fine if I was concern about cost. Anyone else heard this? My understanding of these optima batteries are as follow:
red top - starting/high performance vechicles
yellow top - starting/deep cycle
blue top - starting/deep cycle marine