Optimum Batteries What Size

[glueman21]

You guy's that run Optimum Batteries blue top for trolling motor what size are you using ?

[Steve Stephens]

31's

[LEN B]

31m

[idratherbeefishin]

Here we go agian

[59tomitriton]

31M

[pavi69]

34M, I can get three in a row in my Classic between the transom and the live well.

[Sabre1]

I hope you have better luck with them than I did. My 31 made it only 2 years before it went bad. I only use Deka/East Penn now. Avoid Optima and anything else made by Johnson Controls.

[pavi69]

I hope you have better luck with them than I did. My 31 made it only 2 years before it went bad. I only use Deka/East Penn now. Avoid Optima and anything else made by Johnson Controls.

I have never had one last less than 6 years. You must have been doing something wrong or bad luck. I have had them in two boats, a Tahoe, Trans Am & Yukon

[chsapeak]

BlueTop Group 31 Dual Purpose Deep Cycle/Starting... I've had a group of them for 3 years and then moved them into my 36 volt jon boat system last year. They spent the winter in the boat on a tender and are in great shape going into this season. These are the best batteries you can buy.

[21XDC]

The biggest, baddest one only has 155 min RC.... Far short of what a bass boat really needs.

[billnorman1]

The biggest, baddest one only has 155 min RC.... Far short of what a bass boat really needs.

That's true, however I have heard more positive endorsements for them than any other battery except Northstar. I tend to endorse the Duracell/Sam's/Deka because of the price and personal experience, not that I'm anybody special.

[bdog7198]

when I called to get batteries for my boat I was looking at the Blue Tops and Deka Intimidator. Shop owner kind of chuckled and asked why I even bothered to look at Blue Tops, price was higher and had less capacity. At that point it made it an easy choice.

[Sabre1]

I have never had one last less than 6 years. You must have been doing something wrong or bad luck. I have had them in two boats, a Tahoe, Trans Am & Yukon

You must have had some of the older American made Optimas. Mine were the newer Mexican made version. I have been told that the quality is not what it once was. A friend of mine got 7 years out of one, but it was an older one. I had to help a buddy of mine on the lake who had a dead cranking battery, when I opened up the back compartment, it was Optima blue tops. He quickly replaced them. Every battery person I talked to warned me to stay away from Optima.