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<p>Got this from the owner of Star Auto Electric: <br>
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<p>"<span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">I was a Interstate Distributor for
25 years, they were an excellent quality battery. These
batteries are manufactured for Interstate by Johnson Control who
was manufacturing the batteries here in California, however as
all Companies want to make more profit about 5 years ago they
shut down operations in California and started making the
batteries in Mexico, well you can see what that will do, the
quality started to drop down tremendously to a point were they
have high battery failure we had to drop selling Interstate
Batteries. Most mechanic will not install these batteries in
their customers vehicle's. Now you can buy Interstate Batteries
at Costco, even Triple AAA sells them, just junk batteries.
There is a battery which we are currently selling called
Deka,this battery is manufactured in the USA and they have an
excellent record, we have been selling them for a while and have
not had any problems."</span></p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Agree on the maintainers. BM makes
one for AGM only--and, of course, it's more expensive--but have
heard the wet cell ones work (just don't charge quite as high).</span><br>
<span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana,
geneva, sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">Bob</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/20/2018 8:33 PM, Earl Kagna wrote:<br>
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<div>Over the years, I’ve found that NAPA has had good
batteries. The secret with any of these batteries is to
keep a battery maintainer / charger on them most of the time
in order to keep the battery from sulfating, because they
tend to sit for fairly long periods between drives. This
has worked for me for years with RV batteries, collector car
batteries, etc.</div>
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<div>I finally changed the tri-carb’s battery after 13 years
awhile back – it didn’t fail, but I simply didn’t want to
push things. I think it was an old Delco.</div>
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<div>The Optima batteries are fine, (more expensive) but
probably not necessary in a Healey. </div>
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<div>I use the Battery Minder brand – I’ve got several of
them.</div>
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#141100">Earl Kagna<br>
Victoria, B.C.<br>
BJ8, BT7 tri-carb</div>
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