The ODYSSEY® combines in one box the characteristics of two batteries. It can deep cycle as well as provide serious cranking power — it is like a champion long distance runner and a world-class sprinter in one body.
These drycell batteries are capable of providing engine cranking pulses of 2150A for 5 seconds as well as 400 charge/discharge cycles to 100% depth of discharge (DOD). A typical battery can do one or the other, but not both. A starting, lighting and ignition (SLI) battery, for example, is designed to provide short, high amperage pulses; it performs poorly when repeatedly taken down to deep depths of discharge. A traditional battery is either like a sprinter or like a long distance runner; ODYSSEY® batteries will do both — provide short duration high amperage pulse or low rate long duration drains.
