We had a pair of yellow tops on an old APC 1500RM2U for about 7 years.
We abused it quite a bit and it worked great. One of them finally gave
up the ghost and ended up with a shorted cell. At that point, the fan
was dead so we chucked it and used the good battery in one of the trucks.
There's no reason to do something like that again today. Use AGMs
designed for the application, telco, UPS, etc.
On 6/11/2015 9:54 AM, Paul McCall wrote:
My understanding is that Optima came in two types (in each color).
One (darker case) was for starting (CCA) and the lighter gray was for
runtime (AH)
I know we have run both colors (in deep cycle mode) for several years
and had decent results. We started building battery boxes for our
towers 4 years ago and haven’t replaced a battery yet, using only the
Optima Deep cycle versions (and, yes they get used a lot in Florida)
But, we had used Yellow and Blue tops deep cycle and I cant recall why J
Paul
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Thursday, June 11, 2015 10:30 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] optima battery preference for battery boxes
Those are CCA batteries. You want AH batteries. I wouldn't spend my
money on Optima...
Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Paul McCall <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Blue Top or Yellow Top?
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