What Battery for a winch.

[crx-si]

I was thinkin about an optima anybody hava any suggestions.

[jimbo74]

optima yellow top

[CTENG in KS]

People running winches/lights/etc with the stock 22r alternator, will a good battery - optima or oddessy or the like- be enough, or is everyone upgrading to duals?

[IronClad]

stay away from optima red tops..  the yellow/blues are a little better but i  have been around alot of bad optimas..

running a winch id run  duals..  you can get a switch from a boat shop for like 10-15  bucks  and they are pretty simple to wire up.

[Shamb]

I ran a red top optima for around 5-6 years of hard abuse w/ the winch and it gave me no problems what so ever. Actually saved my butt ALOT of times.. I'd go red or yellow top.



Btw blue top's are water proof marine batterys. Little more $$$

[CTENG in KS]

Anybody evar just wire two up in parallel and run them constant all the time?

[cruzila]

I have for years run them together. The problem is, if one fails, it takes them both down. I just finished a marine 300 amp switch install. I like it.

Oh yeah, deep cell all the way. Pick your brand. Don't use a starter battery, they are designed to give all their power up front to start the engine. A deep cell will give less power over longer time.

[miks85yota]

what about running yellow top and high output alternater

[crx-si]

Ya i am gonna run dual batterys with a continious duty solenoid to be able to seperate the two when runnning the winch or leave the two when needed, by use of a switch. I was thinkin deep cycle battery.

[mudmaster]

Yellow Top Optima

[Ferg]

Odessey first choice($$$)

Yellow top Optima second($)  Mine lasted ten(10) years!

[crx-si]

Was checkin out NAPA's supreme fx battery same as the optima yellow top, can get a good deal on it.