Optima Red or Yellow

billytheman1188 · 01-02-2007, 10:59 AM

Well i have christmas money to spend and i was searching on this site on info for the yellow top, I WAS planning on taking out the old battery and put in the yellow top, but after i read up on them on here, people said to get the red top instead of the yellow. I mean i have a decent system, 1100 watts, but what do you guys think? should i get the red or yellow?

Redog · 01-02-2007, 11:19 AM

I have red in my car, but I'm not running, or plan to ever run a system in it.

With a system, I suggest a yellow top

billytheman1188 · 01-02-2007, 01:12 PM

yea i was leaning toward the yellow but people were saying to get red, diff reasons. But now i think i might lean towards getting front and rear strut bars

or a front strut bar and a new wireless internet card for my laptop cause the one that came with it is...... a.)2 yrs old, b.)it sucks

jabartram · 01-02-2007, 01:54 PM

i run a yellow top, 2600 watts, never have a problem.

sofa · 01-02-2007, 03:09 PM

can sumone explain the difference to me..im also looking to get one but i can only find the red tops around here..is there a price differance also cause the red top here is 200$.

jabartram · 01-02-2007, 03:30 PM

check ebay for the yellow top, i got mine for 180.00 shipped from ebay.

yellowtop is a deepcycle spiral core, redtop is a standard spiral core.

IRONDOG442 · 01-02-2007, 04:06 PM

I have a system and a Red Top and it works/has worked for 4 years fine.

01-02-2007, 06:12 PM

I have the red one

CiscoPath · 01-02-2007, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jabartram

yellowtop is a deepcycle spiral core, redtop is a standard spiral core.

?????? OK, I'll ask. What does that mean?

Ryan from Ohio · 01-02-2007, 09:53 PM

The yellow top is a deep cycle battery. It will provide less over current, but the current it will provide is over a longer period of time.

The Red Top is more of a car starting battery. Provides good CCA, but not long term current.

xsavyor1 · 03-10-2007, 10:59 AM

I sucked a red top dry once. I use Kinetik Power cells now. Great power comp. to the red top

Redog · 03-10-2007, 11:53 AM

Billy, they make a blue one too

Satsuriku · 03-10-2007, 02:33 PM

cherrington17 · 03-10-2007, 05:01 PM

deep cycle are typically marine batteries. even if you kill them, you can throw a charger on them and they will be good again. Which means yellow top can be drained, but revived.

red top, if you kill them, your only going to get a fraction of the power back... but it does provide better cold cranking amps (cca's) which is good for us, in the frozen tundra months...

i wish i had known that when i got my redtop... 2 years ago. i thought red WAS deep cycle. (knew yellow was) now i keep fighting myself to get a yellow, since i accidentally killed my red twice.

Gr1m · 03-10-2007, 05:23 PM

i have 2 Stinger SP1000's in my car, they are deepcycle drycell and run like $225 or thats what they were when i got mine with a 1.0 cap and my lights still dimmed with my system

sound_xtreme · 03-10-2007, 08:25 PM

should be red for starting yellow for extra

Wild Country · 03-11-2007, 08:58 PM

I have yellow and no complaints

Ryan from Ohio · 03-11-2007, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xsavyor1

I sucked a red top dry once. I use Kinetik Power cells now. Great power comp. to the red top

Ya I guess Pat has some good batts.

Anyways my SPL friend prefers the DEKA batteries. I think we got 3 of the intimidators in the Buick...

Seems you didnt pick the right battery for the job

shackney · 03-11-2007, 10:30 PM

yellow ftw

03-12-2007, 05:15 PM

I pretty much agree with most everybody else, red for starting yellow for a longer lasting power for a system, I put two yellow tops in my diesel truck first but they had a harder time starting it but when i switched to red they started it much easier, no system in the truck though.