![]() ![]() The install was easy.thats because I had my car audio guy do it! It weighs almost 60 pounds!!!! With this design, Hawker Energy's batteries avoid the two most common failure modes for conventional batteries, drying and corrosion. The design also eliminates positive terminal corrosion. This proprietary design prevents drying that occurs in conventional 'valve-regulated lead acid' batteries. ![]() These batteries utilize pure lead tin technology, invented and patented by Hawker Energy over two decades ago. Unlike a gel cell, the Drycell uses an absorbed electrolyte design with glass mat separating positive and negative plates. The Odyssey is a fully sealed, rechargeable deep cycle battery. The sealed, metal-jacketed drycell design allows mounting in all but inverted positions. Hawker designed the battery from the ground up to withstand severe vibration, shocks, and impacts. The structural design of the Odyssey is another advantage for off-road enthusiasts. Lead acid, gel cell, and other AGM batteries can only accept 10amps per hour during charge. This means you can charge your battery with as many amps as your charger, alternator, stator, or generator can put out as long as it doesn't exceed 15 volts. The cranking power of a Odyssey battery is double to triple that of equally sized conventional batteries, even at low temperatures.Īlso with simple constant voltage charging, there is no limitation on the inrush current. ![]() With other batteries such as Optima, you must decide between a deep cycle or a high power starting battery, but Odyssey does both. ![]() A typical battery can do one or the other, but not both. These batteries are capable of providing engine cranking pulses of 1700a for 5 sec as well as 400 charge/discharge cycles to 100% depth of discharge (DOD). It can deep cycle as well as provide serious cranking power. Odyssey combines in one box the characteristics of two batteries. With charging characteristics similar to those of a Ni-Cad battery, the Odyssey can be charged to 95% in under 20 minutes. For serious winch users, that represents a tremendous advantage over conventional batteries. their battery can be discharged to 100% a full 400 times, or 500 times if only discharged to 80%. Hawker designs in a three to eight year service life, depending upon usage. The Odyssey also discharges/recharges durably, charges quickly, and requires no maintenance. This measure indicates the time the battery can support a 25A load to 10.5V per module. Best of all, for those of us forced to use single battery systems, the Odyssey has a 156 minute reserve capacity. This is 200+ (I guess that makes it now 725 amps more powerful with the new info!) amps more than similar dry- or gel-cell batteries. Hawker rates the largest member of the Odyssey line at a conservative 1175 cranking amp (their website now says 1700 amps!!!!). The numbers reveal the PC1700's capabilities. The one I have in my Seq (what I own now) is the PC1700. I was so impressed with it that I IMMEDIATELY ditched the stock Toyota Battery when I bought my currenty Sequoia and replaced it with the ODYSSEY even though nothing was wrong with it. It was going strong on year 8!!!!!! I think I paid $90 for it installed. It ran a 650 watt stereo system and the difference in bass resposnse from when I changed from an acid battery was incredible and my lights stopped dimming when the bass hit. I had a Odyssey battery in my old 4 Runner. The batteries are made by Hawker who supplies the batteries to the US Military. The car audio place told me I either had to run 2 batteries or 1 of the Odyssey batteries. I am running a lot of power for my car stereo (almost 2000 watts), backup sensors, etc. The battery I got (Odyssey Marine Battery) will pretty much be overkill for you. Ok, this is a crosspost, but I think its good to post it here as well: ![]()
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