Batteries in the Freightliner Trucks?

I have had pretty good results with the standard Alliance 750cca batteries. Set that came on the truck lasted 3 years. At 525,000 miles now and still on the second set with no indication of any problems. Probably the only thing I do different than most, is that I have a Xantrex inverter/charger in the truck. When at home, shore power plugged in and the batteries get a full fresh charge. On the road, whenever I am going to be sitting and using a lot of hotel load, I fire up the Yamaha EF2000is portable generator and plug into the shore power connection. Batteries stay fully charged and ready to go.

 

Right, cdub, I know DEKA, (Alliance, I believe) and Johnson Controls, don't know #3. They both make a good product, USA made. I don't listen to the fails on this. Nobody's perfect, and I've had good response from using both DEKA and Johnson Controls products. So they're not perfect, that's what warranties are for.

Blairandgretchen has the same choice I learned, 725-750cca is more driver friendly, especially in terms of usable storage. I think the plates in the llower cca batteries are also heavier. I bought 4 of the Alliance from Freightliner, $108/ea, they're working great so far. 6 months in, I also bought 2 new battery terminal cables. Kind of expensive, around $60ea. It's interesting. With the Fleet Pride 1050cca batteries (not AGM) and stock terminal cables, I was getting a LOT of corrosion. A lot. I had to do maintenance at least once/quarter, and I think it was costing me some storage hours.

Now I have 725cca AGM batteries, and I can't say whether it was the battery design or new terminals, but in 6 months I have zero corrosion.

 

How is the performance of the Maxwell's.

 

Same for me Jim. My Alliance ones from Freightliner, I put them in about two years ago. Still doing a great job and not a touch of sulphuric oxidation on any terminals. And I have done nothing to them except a general wash out of the battery compartment from time to time. When I installed, I did spray the the posts and connectors with a sealer.

 

My motorhome has a Freightliner chassis, came with Alliance chassis batteries. I just replaced them after they hit 10 years, no sulphuric oxidation, no corrosion in the battery bay, replaced them as they would go dead if the rig sat for a week without being started. The 2 replacement batteries from Freightliner were also Alliances, $82 a piece. If I get 10 years out of them it cost me $8.20 a year for a battery, or 68 cents a month.

 

i use Exide Select Performance 925 cca batteries. they are cheap and. Plus on my trucks they lasted 4 years . Every summer I add a little distilled water to maintain the electrolyte level.

 

last set of Exide batteries lasted just little over 1 year.
Many Cascadia owners complain that batteries have short life. Its not a batteries quality issue. It's a related to Cascadia design. the engine heat kills them .

 

Mine had Allied in it. Not sure how old they were, but I've had the truck 28 months now.

Replaced them Tuesday with, not sure the name cause kinda dark, but wrench said they are 960 CCA each, should last about 18 months.

$320 installed for all four.

 

No particular.

Throw three or four good batteries in there and constantly monitor the system in your pretrips and check your voltage etc. Load test them several times a year, especially before winter. If you find one that is tired or dead, replace the entire group.

Batteries are considered disposable. A few years you go through several sets anyway. Considering what we load em up with it's no wonder.

 

Two of four batteries are bad. The bad once are inner batteries. Here is one of them




Do you see deformed battery's case on last picture? One side is deformed , positive post side. oth batteries are deformed. Any idea? I am guessing it happened from excessive heat