Batteries Advise: Kinetik, Optima, Batcap. Input Welcome

[theking 10+ year member]

stinger batts are good for the money

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

stinger batts are good for the money

Stinger batts are re-badged Odyssey batteries. So are Diehard Platinum batteries.

 

[theking 10+ year member]

well for the price stinger is hard to beat the spv70 are good batts

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Sure. That picture is an optical illusion? Did you notice the poster is a Batcap dealer and made a reference to the owner of the company? Think he went rouge and is now posting pics on the net to start a conspiracy? How can you actually refute that picture? Did that guy like plant those Batcaps in that case? Is that a homemade 3200? Is that what you're saying? What's with that last post? Are we supposed to go out and buy Kinetic because all those dudes and dudettes are associated with the company? Maybe we can figure out what batteries are in the cars of the CEO's of the top 100 Fortune 500 companies of the world and then post a list? Ridiculous.

3200's were hand built so if a kinetik 600 and a batcap 800 are the same size why couldn't the batteries be switched? Is there a better pic of the disassembled 3200? Where it shows the tape holding the cells together?

Those Dudes and Dudettes compete at the highest level of car audio competition and win Many of them are to busy sounding good and actually BEING LOUD to worry about posting on forums, where as quite a few others seem to want to post results of backyard tests yet for all of their testing they are still not loud.

 

[Ali1 10+ year member]

The Optima Group31 YellowTops are decent for the price. I wouldn't waste my time with the tiny D35 and the D34 is only good as an under hood battery. I would put a G31 YT against a Kinetik 2400 any day. IMO PowerMasters are the best though. The PM D3100 is a beast and IMO the best group31 battery of them all.

I wouldnt go that far...

 

[AcidikBass20 10+ year member]

well this is informational

 

[scoob8000 10+ year member]

What about deka's?

Deka FTW, American made, great quality.

After putting a Deka Intimidator in my car (starting), that's all I'm using in any of my cars for now on.

 

[scott s 10+ year member]

northstar battery strongest around

 

[loopkiller 10+ year member]

There are so many different brands of batteries out there, yet they are a somewhat made from a similar design. Some make small improvements on the basic design for one reason or another. One company might use thinner plates to get a higher burst rate, but that unit will not last as long because of it. Some companies use think plates which are stronger physically, but tend to push less burst amps. The thicker the plates, the more you can deep cycle them and they will maintain a charge.

It all comes down to what you do with your system. Are you a competitor? Are you a daily driver? Do you play music? Do you play test tones or burp? There is no one battery that is best for each of these scenarios. People need to realize that what works for you just might be completely wrong for the guy you are giving advice to.

Imagine if we all ran the same H/U, amps, speakers, subs, etc... Until we do, then a different battery for each application is needed.

 

[Saint211 10+ year member]

At the price point... I LOVE Dekas. A gr 91 deka is roughly equivalent to a kinetik hc 2000 with slightly less cranking amps and slightly higher amp-hour rating. They can be had for a decent coin under 200 dollars each so they are also cheaper or as cheap as optimas.

If your looking for the most punch in one battery, get one of the big boys from a different company. But if your looking for a tough as balls, cheap battery that's great for daily.... DEKA is FTW.

 

[AcidikBass20 10+ year member]

Would it be better to go with many little batteries or a few large ones?

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Would it be better to go with many little batteries or a few large ones?

Whichever is more cost effective for what you're looking at, I would imagine the larger battery...

When you parallel multiple smaller batteries together, they will act as one larger battery.

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[Lakota 5,000+ posts]

My Kinetiks haven't impressed me all that much...

Hell, I have a hc1400 and 2400 under the hood and my truck can barely start in the cold.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

My Kinetiks haven't impressed me all that much...
Hell, I have a hc1400 and 2400 under the hood and my truck can barely start in the cold.

mine has started my truck for 3 + years and of those years at least 1 month had a vast majority of days being colder than 0 and mine always starts. my truck is always outside..rarely if ever garaged. it is 1 degree with a windchill of -15 now and it starts right up.

 

[Thedeadly1 10+ year member]

lakota maybe your truck is just crappy. I love kinetik all my friends at work use them, my brother has an hc1400 running his entire system and starting his car and he loves it. His system is around 1200 rms. kinetik ftw