Optima yellow top batteries

I have 0 experience on these batteries, are pretty expensive down here and the guys have started installing them on the fancy wakeboats (expensive boat needs expensive batterie theory I guess)

A guy installed a yellow top, described as a deep cycle and starting, now he's installing the second, I wanted to know if the "non deep cycle policy" still applies on the Optimas or this are good.

or Do I scrap the yellow and install dual reds or blue?

Pete thanks for answering.
If I got it right they state on their site the yellow is the combination one ("DEEP CYCLING & CRANKING"), would 2 of those make the job? Can I add a similar size red for starting? or need to go with 2 red or blue?

They cost around U$D500 down here... I hate to see that much money wasted...

HW, I think the blue tops are not available in Argentina. So it's either red or yellow.
I wanted to avoid the guy opening the hatch for switching batteries.
It's my understanding that a good starting battery can do the trick of both cranking and feeding services (on sport boats) while the deep cycle just wont cut it for cranking in the not so long run. bigger boats or cruisers are a different story though.

Some (and I dunno whch color) have only large battery cable connections, some have an additional small accesory post with wing nuts. Maybe the only real difference.

It is has been a while since I read up on these batterys (maybe the 4 years that I have had mine in the boat).. so my info maybe dated but the yellow ones used to differ from the dual purpose blue ones basically only in color and in the location and size of the wingnut type connections. The yellow batteries had the secondary connections in the front instead of the top for the blue ones, and internally they were not capable of carrying as much load as the ones on the top of the blue ones. This shouldn’t be an issue if you use the main posts to connect any and all substancial loads. I would just get him another yellow. I am still very happy with my dual purpose blue ones I have never run them down with the stereo to the point where I wasn’t able to start the boat…   and that’s with a lot of time and a fair amount of stereo

Some people would say a bayliner does the same thing as a correctcraft..

What Up Lucho!

Thought I had read that when running more then 1 battery, it was best if they were all the same type/age/etc??


T2,

In my experience you may only need 1 can of paint but you will need several conventional batteries. Had dual optimas in my Suburban that lasted 8yrs with quite a bit of Audio/Visual gear to support, with the boat running a single battery pushing quite a bit of stereo, conventional battery only lasted 2 seasons, the optima still working fine through it's 5th season. Now, at $500 a crack, I would opt for the rattle can, lol.