AGM batteries

Cuddles · PETERBOROUGH, ONT

AGM batteries

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Upgrade the car to 12V or check with saskbattery.com/. Prices are the best, delivery is the best .
Warren

Lightspeed Mike · BELLEVILLE, ONT

wuga wrote:
Upgrade the car to 12V or check with saskbattery.com/. Prices are the best, delivery is the best .
Warren

Thanks Warren for the tip. I just ordered a new Optima battery from them. Saved a bunch, assuming of course it gets delivered. wink

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

Mike
I have bought many batteries from them, never a delivery problem with AGM.
Warren

Cuddles · PETERBOROUGH, ONT

When I can afford an AGM battery, I will get one from Saskbattery but right now I can only afford a regular battery so I got one from NAPA. Someday I'll get an AGM.

123pugsy · MARKHAM, ONT

Why would you want an AGM?
They are designed for the new garbage cars that turn off the motor when stopped at a red light.
Will you be stopping your engine so frequently?

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

I use AGM batteries in the Bantam and Dog Spit where they are inside the car and need to be spill proof. I also use them in the garden tractors. I use lead acid in the Studebaker and the roadster pickup.
Warren

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

i use the glass packs in the bikes and garden stuff where there is a lot of vibration. they seem to last longer than the lead acid ones.

Seeker1056 · DOURO, ONT

the downside to AGM is that if you kill it or leave it at almost depleted - they do not charge back up properly - if at all. They do not like deep cycling at all.
Where as a lead acid battery will most often come back fully

wuga · PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY, ONT

I find if an AGM is depleted or there abouts, if you put a lead acid battery in parallel between the charger and the AGM, it usually recovers quite well. I do this even with an AGM specific charger.
Warren

shag766 · FOXBORO, ONT

Seeker1056 wrote:
the downside to AGM is that if you kill it or leave it at almost depleted - they do not charge back up properly - if at all. They do not like deep cycling at all.
Where as a lead acid battery will most often come back fully

i have been using them for some years now and i have found if they get low they react a lot better with a trickle charge. my h-d wrench put them onto me maybe 10 yrs ago as i was only getting 2-3 yrs on lead due to the vibration. he caught it with the newer bikes having theft alarms and going through lead batteries with the vibration. since i switched to them on my small stuff i charge them full in the fall before i disconnect and trickle charge in the spring. probably getting 2 times more life time. just saying.

-- Edited by shag766 on Sunday 18th of June 2023 09:11:03 PM