The next generation of battery technology after gel cell is AGM - Absorbent Glass Mat. It comes in all sizes so get the AGM with the highest Ah rating that will fit your battery box. Of the AGM batteries, you want a "cranking" battery, as opposed to a golf cart or wheel chair battery. The Ah can be rated the same so if you just go by that you may wind up with the wrong one. I did it. The two designs (cranking vs deep cycle) have differences in the way the plates are engineered and placed within the battery. You can fairly quickly ruin a deep cycle battery by using it as a cranking battery.
I get mine from Powerstride, which handles various brands in addition to their own. Their headquarters is in Corona, CA with branches around California, including here in San Diego. You may be able to find a distributor such as Powerstride in your own neck of the woods and save shipping, although since they all come from Asia these days the shipping is going to get factored in at one point or another. Anyway, my newest AGM is a "Miata" battery ($160 list price), specially for the Miata but is the same size as the lawn tractor battery box that I have. I need a really good battery since at night, with everything on and a 20 AMP alternator putting out half that at lower RPM, I'm almost completely dependent on my battery for short periods. An AGM cranking battery is what you want, with the most Cold Cranking Amps for the size battery box you have. There's tons of battery info on the internet. Do some looking. And buy one of those Harbor Freight bettery maintainers. NOT a trickle charger, but a float charger. You can buy expensive ones but the HF ones seem to work fine. ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=NsRMvGn3ZeaYuIGCtXOdPQAAJ1A9mk8a0luj1TJO2sh3zRLgAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA=
