And if anyone has a link for the odyssey batteries that they can post would be great as I couldn't find it. I will go with a yellow top if I have to but these are cheaper and I have heard quite a few bad things about optimas in the last year or two.
electrathon said
Apr 5, 2011
We ran them for a few years. We were being sponcered so we used what we got donated. Yes, the one you listed is the correct one. We won a lot of races on them. We did not have an amp hour meter to tell what we were really getting out, but I do know it was a little less then a set of Optima 75 series red tops. Aaron
Zaine Stapleton said
Apr 6, 2011
So, your saying you got a little less than 44 amp hours?
electrathon said
Apr 7, 2011
We did not have an amp hour meter to test them so we did not have good data. We were winning races (this was the year that we won almost every race). The testing we did showed that they dropped off a little before the Optimas did. The most acurate test we had on them was once when we loaned one set (a race set that we had been using and winning on) to Barclay Henry. He told us that they were nothing to be to excited over, he was only able to get 28 amp hours out off his guage.
Zaine Stapleton said
Apr 7, 2011
I remember you saying he got 35 ah when I was at Centennial last working with you guys on the wheel cover project, not 28 ah.
Has anyone used these batteries?
Also would this be the correct one? According to the rule book it has to be a 75/35 model. It does not say that it is a deep cycle so im not sure.
http://www.amazon.com/Exide-Orbital-ORB75DT-108-Automotive-Battery/dp/B0009H516C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=automotive&qid=1301952114&sr=1-2
And if anyone has a link for the odyssey batteries that they can post would be great as I couldn't find it. I will go with a yellow top if I have to but these are cheaper and I have heard quite a few bad things about optimas in the last year or two.
We ran them for a few years. We were being sponcered so we used what we got donated. Yes, the one you listed is the correct one. We won a lot of races on them. We did not have an amp hour meter to tell what we were really getting out, but I do know it was a little less then a set of Optima 75 series red tops. Aaron
So, your saying you got a little less than 44 amp hours?
We did not have an amp hour meter to test them so we did not have good data. We were winning races (this was the year that we won almost every race). The testing we did showed that they dropped off a little before the Optimas did. The most acurate test we had on them was once when we loaned one set (a race set that we had been using and winning on) to Barclay Henry. He told us that they were nothing to be to excited over, he was only able to get 28 amp hours out off his guage.
I remember you saying he got 35 ah when I was at Centennial last working with you guys on the wheel cover project, not 28 ah.