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i seen the small dry cells crank 540 plane engines seam to be the way to go??i have two optima s and the one its DEAD . so the hold out is no better then a plate battery so i going to try to work the batteries thru my every day driver to help keep them up in the winter time just have to wash all the salt off them before putting them back in the cars

The guy I spoke to at Odyssey said they were originally the people who developed the Optimas, but the Optimas had an inherent problem. Because it has those 6 round cylinders there is a lot of dead area in between each one and that space contributes nothing to the output. They knew if they could build the same battery but without the round cells they could build a stronger, but smaller battery. However, until the robotics were developed to handle the plates (for some reason human beings can't handle them) they couldn't build them. Once the robotics did become available they were able to start making them.

All of what he was explaining was over my head, and it was 3 years ago, so I may be a little off on those details, but that is the gist of it. I was so skeptical I planned space in my T for a second one to double up on the kick, but as soon as I fired the engine for the first time I knew it wasn't going to be needed.........and that continues to this day, three years later.

Don