remote mounted batteries..whos got em'?

[Dieselcrawler]

Why get them off the core support? To help save it. That's a lot of weight hanging off a core support. Batteries don't mind water or such. My crawler has then mounted behind the cab wide open to the elements. They get heavy abuse from sun and mud/rocks coming off the tires.

 

[laserjock]

Why get them off the core support? To help save it. That's a lot of weight hanging off a core support.

It also is a source of corrosion. I don't care if they are sealed.

 

[IDIoit]

for those of you using the single battery,

which ones are you running?

i see most of these are rated in amp hours rather than CCA's
what should i go with, and why?

any reason not to run a marine deep cell beside the price?

 

[Dieselcrawler]

Are you in warm Cali or does it get cold( below 40)?

 

[IDIoit]

the truck will frequent 20's to 30's 4 months a year.

 

[Hydro-idi]

Maybe a single battery like this would work well for your application.

http://www.optimabatteries.com/en-u...and-starting?gclid=CPyF39bz4MoCFQdqfgodlboBPw

 

[IDIoit]

Maybe a single battery like this would work well for your application.

http://www.optimabatteries.com/en-u...and-starting?gclid=CPyF39bz4MoCFQdqfgodlboBPw

i actually have one of those.

 

[79jasper]

I would be careful with optima. Heard quality has gone done, and they don't like the vibrations of a diesel.
Just what I've heard though.

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[Waystro]

Dodge with a 5.9 cummins has optima yellow tops great battery's
Bob cat has a optima red top again pleased with it. Cat has a exide orbital sealed in it I like the optima's better.

 

[Greg5OH]

I still one day want to put a 4d under the flatbed somehwere with an isolator to the main batteries to run things off of when camping or..sumthing

 

[IDIoit]

i have spent thousands of dollars on optima batteries in my day.
only 1 remains and its the larger D31.
they just dont last.

 

[Koch13351]

Optima's quality declined once they outsourced the manufacturing to Mexico. A buddy of mine had a red top that was USA made and it lasted 7 or 8 years.

 

[IDIoit]

talking with a few of my friends today.
i have been given some advice.

4D and 8D batterys are prone to vibration damage.
they say the vibration cracks the plates inside.
group 31's do not have this issue.

any of you have any input?

 

[jwalterus]

One thing I have thought of since I have been working at a Honda dealership, and see the skinny little batteries (group 51/51r are 5" wide) they put in there, is to run 4 across behind the backseat.
The only reason I'd do it is my cost on them would be about $65 each, but 470cca per, I think it'd crank the truck.
Some others are even skinnier.

 

[fsmyth]

talking with a few of my friends today.
i have been given some advice.

4D and 8D batterys are prone to vibration damage.
they say the vibration cracks the plates inside.
group 31's do not have this issue.

any of you have any input?

one word: bullhockey.

what would be the difference between 4 6-cell batteries tightly bound together (as in
some battery boxes on rigs), and one housing for 6 cells that is properly clamped?
the plate CONSTRUCTION, now, would be a different story. 4's and 8D batteries are
of a heavy material for plates and spacers. I think it would be LESS likely to get damaged.

Real world: these things get tossed up on drilling rigs to start them, back down into the
service truck, out to another job where you have to set it on one of the tracks to reach
the cab battery, back in the truck, out to another where it gets tossed up onto yet
another workover rig, back in the truck, installed in a truck battery box to get the truck
back to the yard, pulled and used in the shop on a dolly for jumping off stuff. For YEARS.
And this is NOT gentle treatment. These suckers are _heavy_.

What do YOU think?