Deep Cycle Battery

[android12]

Anyone tried or found a deep cycle battery like an optima? If so what price? I dont use a trickle charger and just replace mine about every 2 and half years. I dont get any kind of warning like slow start when its going south, so replacing beats getting stranded.

[Barbarian]

Sorry, I'm still using the battery my bike came with -- I just remove it every winter, hook it up for 6 hrs a month to the $10 1A charger I found at Canadian Tire, and away we go.

[Red01]

Deep cycle batteries aren't really designed to handle the kind of duty they'd see as a standard service battery.  They are designed for long and/or hard draw downs before a recharge, not a quick draw from a starter and a constant trickle of charge/discharge cycles.

Buy yourself an inexpensive trickle charger.  It'll cost less than a deep cycle battery, too. 

[LowRyter]

Deep Cycle batteries are for RVs, boats & golf carts.

Cold Cranking Amp batteries are for cars & motorcycles

[Red01]

Deep Cycle batteries are for RVs, boats & golf carts.

And for RV's they're used to run the DC "home" circuits.  They have a standard battery for the "vehicle" side of things.  Same thing for boats big enough to have that need.  Smaller ones use them for electric motors.