Reply To: 6 Volt Optima Batteries Not Available

[Luke Dwyer]

>> Scott…….are you willing to do that, diagram it, and write up an article on it for the rest of us to read ?

That would be a nice fix…….

I would be very happy to write up something for the PAS but I don’t have a spare Optima, and would prefer to take apart an old, dead 12 v first to learn how it’s put together.

What I propose is theoretical — if you look at batteries from back in the vintage of our cars, the are clearly constructed that way, with three cells connected in series. From what I know, modern batteries are the same just packaged up into a neat but somewhat inaccessible box.

Should I come across a dead battery, I will do a postmortem and report on how to convert a 12-v into two six volts.