Battery "power"

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 3:05 pm

Rocky wrote:Congrats on the new Astina, Stan, nice!
Interesting about the battery, what capacity? Like 650 Heavy Duty?

I have no idea. :lol:

Will a picture help?
:lol:

Awesome car. I love the adaptive lights.
Love the sports setting on the gearbox.

Rocky · Postby **Rocky** » Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:45 pm

Stan, the batteries have Model numbers - for e.g. the one I bought was "55D 23L MF" which from my very limited observation suggests that the "55" refers to 550 hamster- hours (or Cranking Amps or whatever) as the Battery place told me it's maximum power was "550 hamster-hours".
The next model up for $25. more was a Yuasa "680 " and described as a "Heavy Duty".
It will have this info somewhere on the battery.

Show us a picture of your car.

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:38 am

the only writng I can see is Q-85.
Apart from Chinese/Asian carcaters
I'll send a pic.

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:26 am

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Rocky · Postby **Rocky** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:52 am

Hi Stan, I couldn't read the detail on the photo but a search on the Century/Yuasa website suggests that for the 2018 2.5 Astina, the correct battery is a 650 CCA model. So yeah, it uses a higher power battery (the $200. one I referred to) to handle all the extra load of a modern car and the stop-start function.