Not only that it seems when you go too small with your choice of battery and do not monitor their stateand charge them you can actually burn them up quickly.All of his smaller than group size 31 batteries died within 2 years. He listens to his system all the time and that includes parking when he is out on the town with his friends.Ya, when you constantly cycle a non-deepcycle batt its bound to cause them to sulfate quicker. But they should still work for him even though I would guess he will get 2 years or less from them instead of 4+.