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Optima - NEW Battery Purchase - crown42

How can a 50 Amp hour Optima Red Top RTS 4.2 battery out perform my 140 Amp hour traditional lead acid battery and still deliver 1000 CCA over my existing battery's 720 CCA considering it is half the size?

Stephen Price

Optima - NEW Battery Purchase - slkfanboy

Basically the are a spiral cell and use very pure lead to provide better performance. Look at excite also.

Optima - NEW Battery Purchase - RT

CCA and Ah aren't necessarily related - although for any one type of battery they are.

Even within the various sub-types of basic lead-acid, there's big variations from car starter, through leisure and marine onto traction batteries - as the internal structure is different to give either good CCA for short periods, high Ah for long periods or compromises in between.

Gel batteries, which the Optima are, have a different construction to a lead-acid starter motor and are increasingly used as OE on cars with Stop-Start.