Optima or Stinger Battery?
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Topic: Optima or Stinger Battery?
Posted By: pcguy760
Subject: Optima or Stinger Battery?
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 1:53 AM
I need a deepcycle battery and I really do not know which one to get - what do you guys think??? Optima Yellow or Stinger SPV35 which I can get for about $25 less. Let me know what you guys think or if any of you own either one of these batteries and what your experiences are. Thanks Alot!
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Posted By: mad550
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 3:54 AM
I don't think you'll get anything like that for any less than about $250 AUD optima I've found to be more reliable.
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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 9:51 AM
What exactly, will you be using the battery for?
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Posted By: kirktcashalini
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 10:38 AM
The yellow top is almost 200 after taxes and everything, so just think about 25 dollars being minimal difference at that range. They both work good, but optimas look cooler I think  ------------- 99 Blazer LT. Yellow Top. Big 3. Infinity Kappa Speakers All Around. Jensen CD/DVD flip out. 2 Infinity Kappa Perfect 12DVQs powered by a Alpine PDX600.1 (in one custom box, building a FG box)
Posted By: audiocableguy
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 4:04 PM
I think pcguy760 left out a zero.
Posted By: kirktcashalini
Date Posted: February 28, 2006 at 5:06 PM
my answer stays the same, whats the difference, about 25? i know the total isnt 25 alone, rather 200ish.
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Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 1:18 AM
LOL, I meant there was a $25 price difference!! Haha, you guys are funny! Well yeah, I decided to go with the Optima because I have used their Red Top before and I was very happy with it. I was just wondering how good Stinger was so thats why I was deciding which one to get. Well I will not be getting it any time soon because those guys at Autozone told me that my Civic battery was fried and dead. Well, I bring it home - leave it overnight on a 6A Charger and in the morning its holding a steady 12.7V. So I put it back it the car (which I just got running today) - and it starts right up!! It has been working fine all day and night so far. Oh its a regular delco battery btw - once I get the amp repaired (5 Channel MTX) I will be switching to the Optima Yellow. Cheers!
Posted By: willdkartunes
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 2:07 AM
Good to hear you got your car running again! Get that Optima in there before the same thing happens all over again. 
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 2:15 AM
for a civic we used a kenetik 1800 power cell.....thats what I would reccommend
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Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 01, 2006 at 12:32 PM
Hey Jeff I never heard of that battery but with your kind of SPL I bet it comes in handy! I think I would go with the one optima yellow 51R and call it a day because my Civic does not have major boom lol. All I have are two Hifonics ZS12 subs, Lanzar Midranges, Pioneer 6x9s and 4 of those 1" Tweeters you find on ebay (the ones that sound good lol) and one amp running the whole thing is a MTX 5 Channel BlueThunder PRO400X5 - Headunit is a Pioneer Flip Out Screen 5700 or something like that. Most of the time we like playing the music with the car shut off and at night we have the neons on while parked - so I guess the Optima would be good enough huh?
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: March 02, 2006 at 4:28 PM
Another vote for the Kinetic or Exide Orbital battery, down with the Optima. (I've burned out 4 of them).
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Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 03, 2006 at 5:48 AM
I can't seem to find any info on the Exide Orbital or Kinetic for a 93 Honda Civic??? Guess I will be stuck with the Optima then....
Posted By: jeffchilcott
Date Posted: March 03, 2006 at 1:41 PM
go to https://www.kinetikaudio.com/...and look in thier dealer section, if they do not have a dealer close enough to you they will sell to you direct.
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Posted By: xtremej
Date Posted: March 03, 2006 at 3:38 PM
Kinetic is twice that battery for what I've seen and installed. Check out the cap killers too.
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Posted By: sexyvic1
Date Posted: March 03, 2006 at 4:12 PM
i have used both the orbital and the yellow top. i like the yellow top better. if u have an ADVANCED AUTO PARTS near u the yellow top is only $149.99. u can also find them in AUTOZONE and Pep Boys for $160 and in sears for about $170-$180. sorry but i never used stinger.
Posted By: sedate
Date Posted: March 03, 2006 at 6:12 PM
For a single 5-channel, I'm not really sure if the differences between the batteries will really be particularly evident...
I imagine the Optima, as the cheaper battery, would prolly be far and away your best, easiest option.. nevermind minor difficulties you've already encountered in locating a high-current replacement battery for a car of that age..
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Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 04, 2006 at 12:41 AM
Yeah, I decided to just get the Yellow Top Optima because its readily available and then I am not really building a competition system. Just using one 5 channel Directed Audio 450D5 amp to run everything. This amp is not insanely powerful, it makes a good clean, moderate system. So I guess I will be just fine with the Optima Yellow with the vehicle shut off and the music playing (like 50% Volume mostly)...
Posted By: sedate
Date Posted: March 04, 2006 at 6:05 AM
Yea like you say that amp is *not* insanely powerful; the Optima is, even if not compared to other, more esoteric car batteries.
I've had my Yellow Top in for pushing 18 months now, and it has never dropped below 12v, ever.. and I have a stock 80-amp alt and *three* amps.
Good choice sir, good choice.
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Posted By: sexyvic1
Date Posted: March 04, 2006 at 11:10 AM
just make sure u get the correct yellow top, there are a bunch of different versions with different CCA , CA , and RC 's .
Posted By: ss-installer
Date Posted: March 04, 2006 at 9:25 PM
just got done putting a Orbital full size battery in a civic that the battery warehouse guys said wouldnt fit. we sell the Orbital for $125.
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Posted By: ryguy
Date Posted: March 05, 2006 at 6:57 PM
i know they make a few different yellow top optima's i have use the tall selnder one and the normal one u see at most of your chain auto stores . i know in the older civics you haveto pit it in from the side not the top and its tight but fits . the other kinetik battery sounds good but $$$ compared to optima , the only thing i have found is the optimas like to be recharge though a battery charger cuz somtimes car just cant charge them to there peak ,  ------------- MECP installer,technician
Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 06, 2006 at 1:41 AM
sedate wrote:
Yea like you say that amp is *not* insanely powerful; the Optima is, even if not compared to other, more esoteric car batteries.
I've had my Yellow Top in for pushing 18 months now, and it has never dropped below 12v, ever.. and I have a stock 80-amp alt and *three* amps.
Good choice sir, good choice.
Hehe, yeah I just want something that can give me a peace of mind when playing the system with the car parked and not running - which I do ALOT. I am not going for insane power but just good clean sound thats loud enough for me - car has alot of work done to it and I would not really want to shake anything loose. For example the back bumper is molded onto the body for one... get what I am saying? LOL.
Posted By: pcguy760
Date Posted: March 06, 2006 at 1:43 AM
willdkartunes wrote:
Good to hear you got your car running again! Get that Optima in there before the same thing happens all over again.
LOL - Yeah I will get it in before I put in the Directed 5 Channel Amp - not going with the MTX anymore. I think the Directed Audio is a better amp from what I read...
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