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Originally Posted by kmaysob
as stated before, deep cycles are not made for really high draws like a starting battery is. sure it will do it, but unless you drive for a ton of miles after start up, it will not recharge. eventually leading to a dead battery. it took me a year to convince my brother of this. he had two huge deep cycles in his chevy diesel. about once a month he had to put a charger on it. changed out to standard starting battery and no issues what so ever.
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I am sure there is more to it than you mention.
I use deep cycle batteries when I can as they dont loose performance so quick. At last count we had 24 batteries in various cars & other things.
The deep cycle battery is only going to loose as much charge as a standard battery during a start. Provided your alt is good it will be replenished just as quick as the regular battery. The one mentioned in this thread has 2x the capacity for current draw (at starting) as the regular one. Its unusual for deep cycle batteries to have higher CCA that the same sized standard battery, but in this case it does.
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