Optima Batteries

[FLYFISHINMAN]

Looking to replace my starting battery. I am looking at the Optima 34M or D34M. The 34M is a starting battery only and the D34M is a deep cycle, but can also be used a starting battery. I plan to upgrade my electronics in the next few years and I am leaning towards the D34M.

Anyone have anything good or bad to say about these batteries? Or, a suggestion of a different brand?

Thanks,

Dave

[gotmuddy]

If it were me and I wanted a really good battery I would check out Odyssey batteries. They are sealed AGM batteries built to military specs. I run them in my atvs and they last very well. That being said, I have a pair of red top optimas in my diesel truck and so far I have been very happy with them.

[flytyer57]

Over the course of 20 years of fishing, I have gone through many batteries. Some only lasted a season or two up in WI. The last battery I bought was an Optima Deep Cycle/Cranking battery. Cost me quite a bit more than the cheaper batteries I had purchased previously, but it lasted quite a bit longer too. In fact, I sold my boat in 2008 to a friend of mine and when I went back up to WI this summer to visit, he was still using that same battery.

I'd say spend the money, you wont be sorry.

[Dutch]

I'm going into my 5 th year on a crank from O'Reilly's. It was the largest cranking amps in the soore. It gens up a 225 Optimax at all temps.