[TPR] First Place perks

[laurieferrari at aol.com]

 Very proud of all three of you and a first place trophy for AJ...well that's just incredibly fantastic!!!  Hope that's true about the Optima being immortal because I just bought one fairly recently myself. Finally managed to kill my Odyssey : (



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On Monday, October 5, 2015 TeamPantera via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote:
Awsome on your 1st Place spoils kid...more reason now to hate and resent you ;-) I replaced my Optima yellow deep cycle super DEAD battery just before SS....as I took that old battery into the store to replace it with a new one...a guy walked by me and said, "Hey I thought those Optima batteries never fail" Asa Jay Laughton via TPR <tpr at teampanteraracing.com> wrote: >Hey all, >The first place finishers in the Silver State Classic Challenge were >treated to a Certificate from Optima Batteries for a free Battery of the >winners choice. > >Having replaced the Pantera battery recently with a Sears DieHard >Platinum AGM, I didn't need one for that car. Instead I chose a >deep-cycle/starting Marine style battery for all-around general use. I >took delivery last week. Awesome... FREE Battery! > >I've already used it to attempt recovery of -another- old spiral cell >battery from Napa. That battery was showing about 0.1 volt, and it's >been that way for a few years. Using a diagram and procedure from >Optima, I hooked the new battery in parallel to the old and the whole >assembly to a Battery Tender AGM charger. After about a day, the old >battery showed 8 volts when isolated. After re-charging the Optima to >over 12V, I now have the charger just on the old battery. We'll see if >I can bring it back to life. > >If I can get that battery to recover, my first plan is to use both >batteries for a 30KW diesel generator I currently have that requires 24V >to start. I also plan to use it for other "mobile" Amateur radio >applications because it has two nice screw-on posts in addition to the >regular battery cable posts. > >A shout out to Optima for sponsoring the Nevada Open Road and Silver >State Classic Challenge races. And thanks to my co-pilot for the win. ;) > >Asa Jay > >-- >Asa Jay Laughton - W7TSC, MSgt, USAFR, Retired >& Shelley Marie >Spokane, WA >****************************** >http://www.racingagainstautism.com >http://www.teampanteraracing.com >http://facebook.com/racingagainstautism > > >_______________________________________________ >TPR mailing list >TPR at teampanteraracing.com >http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com _______________________________________________ TPR mailing list TPR at teampanteraracing.com http://teampanteraracing.com/mailman/listinfo/tpr_teampanteraracing.com
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