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Old Mar 22, 2004 | 07:51 PM
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HI,
I need a Optima Yellow top battery for my Accord, it's a 1999 LX 4 cyl. I can't find any info on their homepage that would help me, and when I try technical support on sites like batteriesrus or something like that, they push me towards the Red top one. I need the Yellow because I have the sylvania xenarc 1010, which uses ballast and would like to add more audio/video equipment in the near future. Thanks
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Old Mar 22, 2004 | 08:13 PM
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The Red top is not Deep cycle like the yellow top which is not good if you have a show car and you play the radio a lot while the car is not running. I have a yellow top because i got one from a friend parting out his car.
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Old Mar 22, 2004 | 11:38 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Operating Engineer &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">HI,
I need a Optima Yellow top battery for my Accord, it's a 1999 LX 4 cyl. I can't find any info on their homepage that would help me, and when I try technical support on sites like batteriesrus or something like that, they push me towards the Red top one. I need the Yellow because I have the sylvania xenarc 1010, which uses ballast and would like to add more audio/video equipment in the near future. Thanks</TD></TR></TABLE>
HID use less power then halogen.
I run over 1k wrms on a red top, but a yellow top is nice.
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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 12:28 AM
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I have a yellow top in my civic. I'll never go back.

It still makes me laugh, my buddy gave it to me for free. His uncle gave it to him and he was like "I already have a battery, here, have it." He could have sold it for $. sucka..........
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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 07:36 AM
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I got a blue deep cycle that I transfered over from my other car in to my accord. Works great, I love it Only thing I had to do was widen the factory bracket to fit the battery snugly.
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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 08:12 AM
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what you need to do is take measurements of where your battery goes than match up to the best size from optima
http://www.1st-optima-batteries.com/
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Old Mar 23, 2004 | 10:07 AM
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I use the yellow top in my 93 ex. I have a 1200w system with 2 15's, 6 mids, 6 tweeters. I've NEVER had to "jump start" my car after I put in the yellow top!

Optima Yellow top
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