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TrailsLessTaken

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Napa Orbital Batteries
« on: November 03, 2008, 08:59:02 PM »
Anybody using these? I went to replace mine the other day and was looking for a Optima Yellow Top and the guy I know at Napa recommended their Orbital Yellowtop, its the same design as the optima and got about the same power ratings I think he said it was 900 cca but it was only 150 bucks. I think its made by exide with napas name put on it...
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Offline Jeffy

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Re: Napa Orbital Batteries
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2008, 11:46:19 AM »
Quote from: TrailsLessTaken on November 03, 2008, 08:59:02 PM
Anybody using these? I went to replace mine the other day and was looking for a Optima Yellow Top and the guy I know at Napa recommended their Orbital Yellowtop, its the same design as the optima and got about the same power ratings I think he said it was 900 cca but it was only 150 bucks. I think its made by exide with napas name put on it...

Hmm, I checked the Exide site and looked at teh battery.  At one time they were licensing the technology from Optima/Interstate.  It looks like they may have changed it enough to have their own patents.  Personally, I'd go with the Optima.  These day's you can find them all over the place.  Costco even sells them.  IIRC, the real top 800U's are still around $100.
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Re: Napa Orbital Batteries
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2008, 03:41:50 PM »
Optima all the way.

I had mine for 7 years untill I kept leaving my lights on the past year it just gave.  I would have to push my TJ a couple times to get it to start, and it worked every single time.  I was at WallMart the last time this happened and just gave up and got a cheapy temp. WallMart version.
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Re: Napa Orbital Batteries
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2008, 06:19:45 PM »
we got 2 optimal batteries and 2 orbitals. the 2 orbitals came first. 1 is still in our cj2a and works great. the second was in our 97gc and went bad after 2 years so it now has a optima as does my yj... id go with optima.. has a bigger fallowing if nothing else.
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Re: Napa Orbital Batteries
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2008, 02:09:49 PM »
Well I went ahead and got the orbital I ended up getting a better price than what he told me after he ran it through my account.  So I will try it out and see how it works out
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