bknbronco
Bronco Guru
When i wrote this i was assuming you had a red top....Do you have red, yellow, or blue?
Your problem is operator error. You runed the battery when you let it go dead!!!! And you can not bring it back from the dead!!!!
The problem with any battery is when you let it go dead a few times it is dead for ever!!!!
People think that a optima is going to be the fix all to there problem. If you have a red top optima there almost the same as a regular lead acid type. they can only be cycled threw a discharge-charge a few times.
You need to get a blue top optima if you want to avoid these problems. Yes a blue top is a deep cycle-starting battery and you can discharge and recharge a few thousand times. I bought a blue top 10 years ago and had it in my blazer, then put it in my suburban when i got that, after i sold the suburban i used the same blue top in the winter for ice fishing and in the summer for my trooling moter. I also gave it to a buddy for a summer for his boats starting battery. Then i gave it to my bro and now he uses it in his boat. This blue top has been indistructable!!!
Of course my dad had a yellow top and that went to crap in a year so maybe i just got luckey with mine. Either way i wouldnt spend that kind of money again. I just buy the walmart batterys now. They exchange them back no questions asked. I buy there expensive ones that have a three year warr i think ( but keep reciept) i had two in my deisel and every other winter i would just go in and get two new ones for free.
Your problem is operator error. You runed the battery when you let it go dead!!!! And you can not bring it back from the dead!!!!
The problem with any battery is when you let it go dead a few times it is dead for ever!!!!
People think that a optima is going to be the fix all to there problem. If you have a red top optima there almost the same as a regular lead acid type. they can only be cycled threw a discharge-charge a few times.
You need to get a blue top optima if you want to avoid these problems. Yes a blue top is a deep cycle-starting battery and you can discharge and recharge a few thousand times. I bought a blue top 10 years ago and had it in my blazer, then put it in my suburban when i got that, after i sold the suburban i used the same blue top in the winter for ice fishing and in the summer for my trooling moter. I also gave it to a buddy for a summer for his boats starting battery. Then i gave it to my bro and now he uses it in his boat. This blue top has been indistructable!!!
Of course my dad had a yellow top and that went to crap in a year so maybe i just got luckey with mine. Either way i wouldnt spend that kind of money again. I just buy the walmart batterys now. They exchange them back no questions asked. I buy there expensive ones that have a three year warr i think ( but keep reciept) i had two in my deisel and every other winter i would just go in and get two new ones for free.