Buying A Duralast Battery  - Your Essential Guide

The boat battery is a vital aspect of marine safety, and should not be overlooked. Many water lovers, whether venturing onto the open ocean, or using inland waterways and lakes, fail to provide a well maintained and optimized battery for their craft. This has, on countless occasions, resulted in tragedy. The Duralast battery range, although not necessarily suitable for extreme operating environments, do provide a better quality of battery for boating use than most standard automotive batteries.

Duralast batteries are available online and come in a number of models for marine use specifically. The Duralast 12 Volts 1000 CA Marine Dual Purpose Battery comes with a full 3 year warranty and a 12 month free replacement policy. Having used the Duralast Marine range for the last 8 years, I have never had one fail. That said, I do utilize a smart battery charger to ensure that it is in perfect condition. It is certainly reasonable to expect one a marine battery of this calibre to be useful for 5 years, depending on the amount of abuse it is subjected to.

The Duralast Marine Dual Purpose battery is specifically designed for use in boats and RV's, and is produced with the cold cranking amps, reserve capacity and resistance to vibrations, to keep you on the water in demanding marine and RV conditions. Combined with a Duraplast battery charger, you have a complete marine battery set up that you can trust.

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The Duraplast Marine Deep Cycle Battery provides a CCA of 550 and a reserve capacity of 140. These deep cycle batteries are ideal for long duration moderate to low amperage draining applications, but are not the right batteries for general cranking chores.

Most marine batteries are a hybrid and fall somewhere between a starting (cranking) battery and a true deep-cycle one. The hybrid batteries will usually have plates that are somewhat heavier than the starting battery and are composed of a lead sponge type material. Better than nothing, but nowhere near as heavy duty as a deep cycle model. The batteries are usually rated in CCA (cold cranking amps) or MCA (marine cranking amps) which is the same as CA. So it you find a battery with MCA or CA on it, it could be a true deep cycle battery, but may not be.

The Duralast Marine Dual purpose battery is indeed a hybrid, but does work exceptionally effectively for most small scale applications. It is a Group 27 battery. Duralast also produce a marine starting battery with a rating of 875 CA.

All in all, Duralast manufacture a good range of batteries for general boating and RV applications. They are not the best batteries, nor the worst. Available from Autozone stores, treat them with respect and you will  be sure of consistent operation and a long battery life. For the money, there is not much that can match the performance of a Duralast battery.