Optima battery red top vs yellow top11/17/2023 Mixing red tops and yellow tops is wrong! (unless they’re wired completely separately).If you’re not sure which one you need, you can’t go wrong with yellow top.If you use a “battery tender” or external charging source to keep your ride ready to roll, you need a yellow top.If you think you need more than one battery, get yellow tops.That’s the basics, let me add some other general rules (here’s where the wrench throwing starts) This up-down, repeated cycling is what yellow tops are made for. Put another way: Crank it, over power your alternator, drain it, then let your charging system catch up.Purpose #2: Continuous or long periods of high demand, high power usage.Put another way: Big-time cranking amps with only a little discharge because the motors starts and the alternator quickly takes over.High voltage, short duration “bursts” of power when cranking the motor.Why? Because I’ve already found that some of my buddies are breaking these simple rules: Red top is for starting. But, experience tells you, or should, that getting the right parts for your ride, even if they’re a little more money, always pays off in the end.īreaking down what I learned, I expect some genuine disbelief, bordering on hate, in the way of comments from this story. Optima’s a premium product and costs more than a run of the mill wet battery. On the first day, I learned about the “Optima Paradox.” Red top or yellow top? Ken, my expert technical guide, schooled me on how folks that need a yellow top see that it’s more expensive and buy a red top instead. The showed me they care about their existing customers and want to earn more by selling a great product. Why’d Optima do it? Cause they’re serious about making batteries for enthusiasts. Also strongly represented was the off-road, diesel towing/performance, drag racing and serious computer-audiofile segments. Great idea, right?, through Grease Girl and me, Pikesan, represented the hot rod and custom car crowd. If you missed the other stories about SEMA, then you didn’t read how Optima Batteries brought up car and truck enthusiasts for a “round table” of sorts to find out what’s happening with their customers. Optima Red or Yellow top? I bet you’ve got it wrong!
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