It's time for a 1 year anniversary update on this battery. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: Konnwei Tester New Battery- SOH -- 100% R -- 2.32M VOL -- 12.61 STD -- 950A CCA -- 1041A Konnwei Tester 1 Year Old Battery- SOH -- 100% R -- 2.44M VOL -- 12.64 STD -- 950A CCA -- 992A Topdon Charger/Tester New Battery- SOH -- 100% SOC -- 98% Test Value -- 1089CCA Voltage -- 12.59 Resistance -- 2.20M Topdon Charger/Tester 1 Year Old Battery- SOH -- 100% SOC -- 100% Test Value -- 1060CCA Voltage -- 12.65 Resistance -- 2.30M All tools and parts shown in the video, may be affiliate links: Odyssey Battery -- amzn.to/3xmgYyy Konnwei Tester -- amzn.to/3SREsay Topdon Charger/Tester -- amzn.to/48fYBeR The Best Tractor Battery I've Ever Used -- amzn.to/3XvEsw4 Full Playlist on this battery -- th-cam.com/play/PLHUMDqN8PZs8Q87bZrKKwoKIYzAylr4yK.html Timestamps: 0:00 -- Date/Time/Temperature 0:32 -- Overview 1:47 -- The Tools 3:00 -- Test 1 7:26 -- The Recharge 8:33 -- Test 2 11:40 -- Comparing Test Data 16:19 -- Final Thoughts 17:44 -- Subscribe Give a 👍 and subscribe 🔔 if you'd like to see more of these video reviews and thanks for watching 😃!
Odyssey batteries are amazing. I work in the oilfield and we use these batteries on compressors. Even when alternators die we bring them back to the yard and recharge them. They will last as long as the alternator survives. A lot of them are going on 3 and 4 years and still testing like new. We have 1000s of these. They’re great batteries. Even when it’s single digit temps they still are able to crank Cat 3304 and 3306s with compressors with 150W oil. After seeing what they’re capable of I bought some group 65s for my Powerstroke.
I am going to give a set of 65s a try on my powerstroke tomorrow. I had a set of Duracell ultra agm that lasted 7 years so can’t complain honestly was going go back with same as set and the local batteries plus store didn’t have any of the Duracell ultra agm they had one x2 power agm in stock the x2 is made by northstar which is same company owned as odyssey batteries Enersys found local part store has odyssey batteries instock so will give them a try and see how they do just wanted to add my info on the other batteries that lasted well
Thank you for uploading this review video. Had been lately thinking in adding a second Optima battery to my old 2004 Durango who sees quite a lot of off road hard working abuse at the ranch. After seeing your video, now I am leaning more towards just replacing the Optima with an Odyssey. I will look more into that option. I am sure there has to be a rough-use Odyssey out there.
These Odyssey batteries are heavy duty for off road and on road use. I think the Odyssey website has a video showing the manufacturing process and internal construction. They use a much heavier buss bar connection internally for connecting the plates to the terminals. This is the common mode of failure for most standard batteries when used for off road conditions. I'm fairly certain that all Odyssey batteries are considered heavy duty for both off and on road use. But I'd check their website just to be sure. Cheers 🍻
Thanks for the review. Looking to replace my 6yo Northstar 94R as they are no longer made. Looks like NS purchased the parent company that makes Odyssey. Hoping these are as good.
I have no idea what if anything changed when Odyssey was acquired, this battery is my first experience with the brand. I'm sure you can't wait another 7 years for me to finish this review, but so far so good 😁.
That breaks down to $50 per year cost of ownership, I think I'd be happy with that if I can duplicate those results. But I remember not long ago, $50 got you a brand new name brand battery! So there's that I guess. Cheers 🍻
What happened to normal flooded batteries w/ 72mo warranties ? I am sure these AGM batteries are great, but their price are still double what I used to pay for a top of the line Interstate. I can't let my 2002 LS430 sit for more than two weeks without problems. If I disconnect the battery from the car, while it sits, the battery pretty much maintains its charge.
Not sure I understand the question. But I've never had a 72 month warranty on any battery that I've owned. All the batteries I've used in the past 12 years now, they all died in 12 months or less, every single one of them! I think I went through 4 Deka batteries in a row before just giving up on the brand completely. After getting burned raw like that, now I'm real sensitive. Everything afterwards I simply returned for a refund. If it can't even make it a year, then it's completely useless to me and I now cut ties with the brand immediately. Is that what you were asking?
Believe me, many moons ago, Interstate, and I assume others, had 72 (as well as 60) mo warrantied batteries… before AGM. It is becoming harder to find even 36 mo nowadays
Would be interesting if you could get a baseline on your testers, to see how accurate it is. The go to, for years has been the Schumacher BT-100. If your different meters measured the same, I wouldn't have any concerns. Granted, they don't have all the bells and whistles as the electronic versions, but they are cheap, reliable and last forever.
They are accurate, very in fact. I checked both testers against my Fluke 87v back when I first got them. But as demonstrated in the video, they are very sensitive to their connection point. Every wiggle of a cable will result in a different reading. Batteries are very coarse devices though, they don't really care about mili-volts until we start talking about 100's of them 😁.
When you connected the tester, your battery had 12.00V, which means it was deeply discharged. Either you don't drive much and rarely, or something in the car consumes too much electricity when the car is parked and not in use. If this is the case, you will quickly damage even a very good battery. Measure the power consumption at standstill and charging voltage. This battery is AGM, and a fully charged 100% AGM battery has a voltage of 12.90 - 12.96V. Whenever you measure the voltage and it is lower than 12.65V, you must quickly fully charge the battery so that it does not sulfur and serves you for many years. I know what I'm writing because I am a specialist in batteries and vehicle installations. Regards.
Just some friendly advice here. Know the guy/gal you are talking at, before you begin to type/talk. "Trust me I know" doesn't get us anywhere. But proof does! All I have to offer is proof!
@@Finite-Tuning Thank you for your response. You don't actually want to put the grease between the terminals and connectors. Put the connectors on the terminals then coat it all with the grease. over time the grease will become an electrical insulator. If you start to notice the battery losing juice again take the connectors off and clean, then reattach.
@@brettweltz8135: If grease could stop the force of a battery clamp, we'd have much bigger problems to worry about. If grease could stop 12vdc with over 1K amps, the engine would never start. I've already explained the low battery voltage in the video. I "always" use dielectric grease directly on battery terminals, been doing so over 30 years now. It helps to block corrosion, nothing more, and it barely even does that much.
@@Now-Review-This maybe dielectric grease behaves differently up north. I live in Miami. the grease with my experience became almost like water and seeped into the connectors and caused just enough resistance to interrupt the circuit. after cleaning the connectors and terminals then doing what I mentioned in my previous comment, the problem hasnt come back so far... its been 10 months. could also be the connectors... its a group 75 battey in a 95 corvette.
@@brettweltz8135: Another place you might find the stuff is in the breaker panel in your home. It's heavily used there as well, but is probably green/blue in color. Even in the south dielectric grease is attempting to stop corrosion 😁. It's used by all industries where ever electrical connections are made.
What group size did you test and what year and engine size are you using??? I have two Fords , 2007 , F150 and Expedition, both have a 5.4 . Been getting good life out of the Motorcraft batteries just wanted to see what other options there are now.
It's time for a 1 year anniversary update on this battery.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚:
Konnwei Tester New Battery-
SOH -- 100%
R -- 2.32M
VOL -- 12.61
STD -- 950A
CCA -- 1041A
Konnwei Tester 1 Year Old Battery-
SOH -- 100%
R -- 2.44M
VOL -- 12.64
STD -- 950A
CCA -- 992A
Topdon Charger/Tester New Battery-
SOH -- 100%
SOC -- 98%
Test Value -- 1089CCA
Voltage -- 12.59
Resistance -- 2.20M
Topdon Charger/Tester 1 Year Old Battery-
SOH -- 100%
SOC -- 100%
Test Value -- 1060CCA
Voltage -- 12.65
Resistance -- 2.30M
All tools and parts shown in the video, may be affiliate links:
Odyssey Battery -- amzn.to/3xmgYyy
Konnwei Tester -- amzn.to/3SREsay
Topdon Charger/Tester -- amzn.to/48fYBeR
The Best Tractor Battery I've Ever Used -- amzn.to/3XvEsw4
Full Playlist on this battery -- th-cam.com/play/PLHUMDqN8PZs8Q87bZrKKwoKIYzAylr4yK.html
Timestamps:
0:00 -- Date/Time/Temperature
0:32 -- Overview
1:47 -- The Tools
3:00 -- Test 1
7:26 -- The Recharge
8:33 -- Test 2
11:40 -- Comparing Test Data
16:19 -- Final Thoughts
17:44 -- Subscribe
Give a 👍 and subscribe 🔔 if you'd like to see more of these video reviews and thanks for watching 😃!
Odyssey batteries are amazing. I work in the oilfield and we use these batteries on compressors. Even when alternators die we bring them back to the yard and recharge them. They will last as long as the alternator survives. A lot of them are going on 3 and 4 years and still testing like new. We have 1000s of these. They’re great batteries. Even when it’s single digit temps they still are able to crank Cat 3304 and 3306s with compressors with 150W oil. After seeing what they’re capable of I bought some group 65s for my Powerstroke.
Keep us updated.
The more of us doing this job in real life, keeps the manufacturers true to their specifications!
I am going to give a set of 65s a try on my powerstroke tomorrow. I had a set of Duracell ultra agm that lasted 7 years so can’t complain honestly was going go back with same as set and the local batteries plus store didn’t have any of the Duracell ultra agm they had one x2 power agm in stock the x2 is made by northstar which is same company owned as odyssey batteries Enersys found local part store has odyssey batteries instock so will give them a try and see how they do just wanted to add my info on the other batteries that lasted well
Looking forward to you new video. Just bought this for mine. 👍🏽
This coming February I'll have another update.
Cheers 🍻
Thank you for the review I’d say it’s safe to buy the 2 group 65s needed for my ram diesel. I appreciate your time doing this
Very thorough well laid out review. I appreciate it
I appreciate your appreciation!
Cheers 🍻
Thank you for uploading this review video. Had been lately thinking in adding a second Optima battery to my old 2004 Durango who sees quite a lot of off road hard working abuse at the ranch. After seeing your video, now I am leaning more towards just replacing the Optima with an Odyssey. I will look more into that option. I am sure there has to be a rough-use Odyssey out there.
These Odyssey batteries are heavy duty for off road and on road use. I think the Odyssey website has a video showing the manufacturing process and internal construction. They use a much heavier buss bar connection internally for connecting the plates to the terminals. This is the common mode of failure for most standard batteries when used for off road conditions. I'm fairly certain that all Odyssey batteries are considered heavy duty for both off and on road use. But I'd check their website just to be sure.
Cheers 🍻
Nice way to market a battery tester. Well done.
I like both of the testers shown, but I love that Topdon one.... That thing is a very cool muti-tool!
Cheers 🍻
Thanks for the review. Looking to replace my 6yo Northstar 94R as they are no longer made. Looks like NS purchased the parent company that makes Odyssey. Hoping these are as good.
I have no idea what if anything changed when Odyssey was acquired, this battery is my first experience with the brand. I'm sure you can't wait another 7 years for me to finish this review, but so far so good 😁.
Been using Odyssey batteries for many years and when used in addition to a battery minder I have achieved a life span of around eight years.
That breaks down to $50 per year cost of ownership, I think I'd be happy with that if I can duplicate those results. But I remember not long ago, $50 got you a brand new name brand battery! So there's that I guess.
Cheers 🍻
@@Now-Review-This Just bought a "cheap: battery from NAPA for a car that we are going to donate in a few months and it was close to $200.00.
What happened to normal flooded batteries w/ 72mo warranties ? I am sure these AGM batteries are great, but their price are still double what I used to pay for a top of the line Interstate. I can't let my 2002 LS430 sit for more than two weeks without problems. If I disconnect the battery from the car, while it sits, the battery pretty much maintains its charge.
Not sure I understand the question. But I've never had a 72 month warranty on any battery that I've owned. All the batteries I've used in the past 12 years now, they all died in 12 months or less, every single one of them! I think I went through 4 Deka batteries in a row before just giving up on the brand completely. After getting burned raw like that, now I'm real sensitive.
Everything afterwards I simply returned for a refund. If it can't even make it a year, then it's completely useless to me and I now cut ties with the brand immediately.
Is that what you were asking?
Believe me, many moons ago, Interstate, and I assume others, had 72 (as well as 60) mo warrantied batteries… before AGM. It is becoming harder to find even 36 mo nowadays
@@carman200l I do recall those days as well.
Would be interesting if you could get a baseline on your testers, to see how accurate it is. The go to, for years has been the Schumacher BT-100. If your different meters measured the same, I wouldn't have any concerns. Granted, they don't have all the bells and whistles as the electronic versions, but they are cheap, reliable and last forever.
They are accurate, very in fact. I checked both testers against my Fluke 87v back when I first got them. But as demonstrated in the video, they are very sensitive to their connection point. Every wiggle of a cable will result in a different reading. Batteries are very coarse devices though, they don't really care about mili-volts until we start talking about 100's of them 😁.
@@Now-Review-This Thanks for the reply!
better than DOA die hard
When you connected the tester, your battery had 12.00V, which means it was deeply discharged. Either you don't drive much and rarely, or something in the car consumes too much electricity when the car is parked and not in use. If this is the case, you will quickly damage even a very good battery. Measure the power consumption at standstill and charging voltage. This battery is AGM, and a fully charged 100% AGM battery has a voltage of 12.90 - 12.96V. Whenever you measure the voltage and it is lower than 12.65V, you must quickly fully charge the battery so that it does not sulfur and serves you for many years. I know what I'm writing because I am a specialist in batteries and vehicle installations. Regards.
Just some friendly advice here. Know the guy/gal you are talking at, before you begin to type/talk. "Trust me I know" doesn't get us anywhere. But proof does! All I have to offer is proof!
did You put dielectric grease between the terminals and the connectors?
Yes!
@@Finite-Tuning Thank you for your response. You don't actually want to put the grease between the terminals and connectors. Put the connectors on the terminals then coat it all with the grease.
over time the grease will become an electrical insulator. If you start to notice the battery losing juice again take the connectors off and clean, then reattach.
@@brettweltz8135:
If grease could stop the force of a battery clamp, we'd have much bigger problems to worry about. If grease could stop 12vdc with over 1K amps, the engine would never start. I've already explained the low battery voltage in the video. I "always" use dielectric grease directly on battery terminals, been doing so over 30 years now. It helps to block corrosion, nothing more, and it barely even does that much.
@@Now-Review-This maybe dielectric grease behaves differently up north. I live in Miami. the grease with my experience became almost like water and seeped into the connectors and caused just enough resistance to interrupt the circuit. after cleaning the connectors and terminals then doing what I mentioned in my previous comment, the problem hasnt come back so far... its been 10 months.
could also be the connectors... its a group 75 battey in a 95 corvette.
@@brettweltz8135:
Another place you might find the stuff is in the breaker panel in your home. It's heavily used there as well, but is probably green/blue in color. Even in the south dielectric grease is attempting to stop corrosion 😁. It's used by all industries where ever electrical connections are made.
What group size did you test and what year and engine size are you using??? I have two Fords , 2007 , F150 and Expedition, both have a 5.4 . Been getting good life out of the Motorcraft batteries just wanted to see what other options there are now.