> They use thin lead plates wound into a tight spiral (see tehcnical section
> on their site). Do you think they would be any good in a car?
They would work, but as a main battery you would still be better off with a
cranking battery. A deep cycle battery is designed to provide a steady
amount of less current over a long period of time, such as you would need
running a trolling motor on a boat, or running inverters in an RV. A
cranking battery is designed to provide short burst of high current, such as
is needed to run a started motor. Running a starter motor off a deep cycle
battery won't give you maximum performance, and will kill it prematurely.
Also, a deep cycle is designed to be run nearly empty before being
recharged, while a cranking battery is designed to have a short burst pulled
out, and then quickly returned to full charge and maintaining a full charge.
I'm not real familiar with generator based systems, so it may vary there,
but with alternator based systems, remember-an alternator isn't there to
recharge a dead battery, its there to maintain a full charge.
Eric Klos Metro Detroit area, Michigan
1989 Saab 900-usually daily driver, currently in storage with bad trans
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