I have used East Penn Agm batteries for many years. Currently They make Federated, Duracell, and Deka. They use virgin lead. Only in the AGM batteries. I do not know about the floodeds. The cost quit a bit more but I get easily 5 or 6 years out of them. My diesel tractor one lasted for 8 years. Napa Agm used to be East Penn but now are coming our of Mexico and are no good. I was strumped when i only got 3 years and then I found out they had switched. I will never use any else. Plus if you pick on up compared with the same conventional they weigh 4 or 5 pounds more. I have 3 trucks and 4 cars the tractor and a Harley. East Penn is the way to go. ...Just saying
Looking for a good battery for my 2018 Ram 1500 Limited
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Let me tell you a bit of a story about my X2 battery from Batteries Plus. I believe it’s essentially an Odyssey in special clothing, but here’s the story:
Battery was about a year old when my altnerator died. I didn’t know it had died because the car was running so well on just the battery. Got home, car would not restart. Repeated jump starting attempts and I managed to get the battery down to 7V.
Hooked my battery tender and tried more starting attempts and managed to get the battery down to 4V. By any rational measure, this battery is mortally wounded. I it took a couple days in spare time to get the alternator, but I got it done. Battery was (presumed) dead.
I hooked up the GooLoo battery charger and it would kick off saying “battery is toast” after about 20 min. Reset the charger, tried again. I noticed it would go a bit longer before kicking into “your battery is toast” mode.
After a dozen or so cycles of this, I just left the charger on overnight to see what happens. In the morning, the battery was up to 10.8V or so, but the charger had kicked out into “battery is toast” mode. But clearly the battery was growing in charge.
A couple more cycles and the battery was up to 12.7V and is started the car.
I let the car run, battery got up to full charge.
Three years later, that battery was still powering that car when I sold it just after Christmas recently.
Now, show me another car battery that can shrug off being pulled down to 4V!!
Battery was about a year old when my altnerator died. I didn’t know it had died because the car was running so well on just the battery. Got home, car would not restart. Repeated jump starting attempts and I managed to get the battery down to 7V.
Hooked my battery tender and tried more starting attempts and managed to get the battery down to 4V. By any rational measure, this battery is mortally wounded. I it took a couple days in spare time to get the alternator, but I got it done. Battery was (presumed) dead.
I hooked up the GooLoo battery charger and it would kick off saying “battery is toast” after about 20 min. Reset the charger, tried again. I noticed it would go a bit longer before kicking into “your battery is toast” mode.
After a dozen or so cycles of this, I just left the charger on overnight to see what happens. In the morning, the battery was up to 10.8V or so, but the charger had kicked out into “battery is toast” mode. But clearly the battery was growing in charge.
A couple more cycles and the battery was up to 12.7V and is started the car.
I let the car run, battery got up to full charge.
Three years later, that battery was still powering that car when I sold it just after Christmas recently.
Now, show me another car battery that can shrug off being pulled down to 4V!!
Holy crap man, that’s awesome. I was actually considering one of those X2 batteries you’re talking about at batteries plus but figured I’d be doing OK with the larger size H8 than what my truck came with which was an H7 Duracell AGM due to the 5+ years we got out of the regular Duracell flooded battery that we put in my wife’s Honda Civic so I figured maybe some other time I’ll spend over $350 for a battery but after hearing that, that’s amazing to be able to bring a battery back like that. That’s unheard of.
Some of it might be the gooloo charger but I don’t think that’s enough to explain a near miracle.
Speaking from experience working on cars for 30 years I will say stick with the group size and OEM spec batteries. These vehicles are rolling computers with tons of modules constantly communicating with one another all dependent on the correct voltage and setup
Not saying you’re wrong about that stuff but so far this Duracell AGM for an EcoDiesel Ram(I have the Hemi, BTW) has been pretty good so far. I haven’t charged it in a while because it’s been so hot out but I’ve put the charger on it a couple times since I bought it way back when and it’s been great.
