brynseiri
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- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Conundrum. Friend has bought optima batteries after endless cold starting problems, one for his old Same Antares and another for his Sanderson teleporter, and after much praise over the last year, one has given up the ghost. Now firstly, I'm not so sure he has been sold the right ones, these are yellow top batteries, and I always believed that it was the red type you put on heavy applications, and the yellow were more suited for your range rover sport with all it's electronic DVD players etc etc? The battery initially packed up on the Sanderson, not holding a charge, so he swapped it for the one on his tractor in the belief that it has a better alternator. Not so, I multimetered them both and charging ok at 13.7 volts. The tractor drains batteries over night, so it has an isolator switch, so no issues there. He took the battery back to the supplier and they charged it and said it was fine. I have charged it with a ctek twice to no avail, so, it's fecked. Should he buy a red top one next time? The Same and Sanderson ain't exactly pimped rides, they only drive, lift, shift and drag, no electrics, climate control or DVD player to watch porn on, so I can't see why they sold him a yellow type, or am I wrong?