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Re: Is the guy at Advance Auto full of it?
I live a few miles from the Deka plant in PA. I have "The Usable" (factory seconds) in two of my cars and my lawn tractor. They work just fine.
My dad just replaced his backup sump pump battery with a Deka. Saved some money and didn't have to put the acid in it himself; apparently the store that he got his last battery from keeps them in dry storage, sold him the battery and acid, and sent him home to fill it himself. I guess we'll see how long this one lasts. I'll get back to you all in 5 years...
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Re: Is the guy at Advance Auto full of it?
You never know how much of the crap you read online you can believe but the impression I get is that people consider Deka to be better than Johnson Controls and Exide to be flat out crap. There are other options for deep cycle batteries which I guess are the Ferraris of batteries like "Trojans" but they are pretty "hard" to find.
If I can't find a PA person who comes up this way often, I will buy the Diehard which is a Deka. I actually have two in parallel so I can run the pump continuously for 16-18 hours in case we are out of town and we lose power and water is coming into the basement.
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Re: Is the guy at Advance Auto full of it?
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