What is the best battery??

[Buckshot 1]

:smile: I use Interstate battries. I use the biggest amp battery I can get in the battery tray. Those dime store 19.99$ battries are pretty much low amped and you fiqure on buying one every year. But I also remove the grounds when storing equipment for the winter. On my snow plow tractor, I use a battery tender. In this day and age, how does anyone know, whos manfacturing what battery?

 

[midnite rider]

:smile: In this day and age, how does anyone know, whos manfacturing what battery?

The only way to tell who is the manufacturer is to check the code on the battery or the MSDS sheet for the battery. Most retailers such as Sears (Diehard) and Walmart (Everstart) might have batteries with the same private label name made by several manufacturers depending on the location to reduce shipping costs or to provide different types or sizes of batteries and contracts with manufacturers might change.There are thousands of global battery manufacturers. :confused2:

 

[Buckshot 1]

:smile: How true. Just like anything else, shop around for the cheapest cost and they get a bigger bang for their buck.

 

[Briana]

Welcome to LawnMowerForum!

I moved your thread to the Small Engine & Mower Repair forum. :smile:

 

[reynoldston]

Back a few years ago when I was working on electric fork trucks which runs on lead acid batteries. When we were buying replacement batters as I understood there was only a small amount of US lead acid battery manufactures. What they did was just putting different names on the batteries to sell them. As I under stood it was, you get what you pay for?

 

[chance123]

I get my rider batteries dry, with no acid in them. They are light and ship reasonably cheap. They can sit on my shelf for years without going down or the cardboard separators wasting away from the acid. When I sell them, I put fresh acid in them. Customers prefer this as opposed to a battery thats been sitting on the shelf for months with the acid in it.

 

[mullins87]

I'm sure there are others, but the only two manufacturers that I'm aware of are Johnson Controls and Exide.

 

[reynoldston]

I'm sure there are others, but the only two manufacturers that I'm aware of are Johnson Controls and Exide.

You could be right on this.

 

[Rivets]

There are a lot others, found these.

Lead Acid Battery Manufacturers in USA

Lead Acid Battery Manufacturers in United states - Lead battery scrap, Recycling Directory: Traders, Manufacturer, Supplier, Exporter & Importer

 

[midnite rider]

I'm sure there are others, but the only two manufacturers that I'm aware of are Johnson Controls and Exide.

There are many other manufacturers (not brands) of lead acid batteries in the USA alone. Here are some listed below that are just A through D not counting the rest of the alphabet.

ABS Alaskan Inc., (US)
Alaska Battery Manufacturing, (US)
Antique Auto, (US)
Asisco Classic Car, (US)
Atlantic Battery Corp., (US)
Battery Builders Inc. [Fork Lift Deep Cycle], (US)
Battery Specialties, (US)
Best Battery LLC, (US)
Braille Battery, (US)
Bulldog Battery [Deep Cycle], (US)
C&D Technologies inc., (US)
Cell-Con Inc., (US)
Commercial Battery, (US)
Concorde, (US)
Continental Battery Mfg. Co., (US)
Crown Battery Mfg. Co., (US)
Discover-Energy, (US)
Dyno Battery, (US)

There are many more throughout the world especially China.