RE: Optima alternatives

["Dave Harris" <gvanman@cac.net>]

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-ev@listproc.sjsu.edu [mailto:owner-ev@listproc.sjsu.edu]On
> >Behalf Of David G Leatham

> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob Bath" <farfromsmoggen@yahoo.com>


> >    I sometimes get to install Optima Cranking batteries for 
> >starting boat
> >engines.  I've seen some early deaths that should not have been. 
> > Yet other
> >boats do great.  Not yet sure why.   I'm very carefull to prep 
> >the charging
> >parameters when using sealed batteries and avoid gell batteries.  These
> >Panosonics sound interesting.

I would be interested to know why you avoid Gell batteries.
Have you had bad axperiences with them?
Cheers,
      Dave Harris