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Old 10-25-2011, 03:49 PM
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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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Old 10-25-2011, 07:35 PM
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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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Old 10-25-2011, 11:12 PM
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Re: Is the guy at Advance Auto full of it?

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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.
Like just about everything Tony, they are probably all "made in China"

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