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Old 10-05-2017, 11:39 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by niky View Post
The one issue is that you require a deep cycle battery, which costs... well... not an arm and a leg, but a few fingers and toes, at least.

Friend uses a regular battery in his car.

He simply wedges the iStop button down with a piece of folded paper. No iStop, no need for deep cycle.
IIRC Mazda was featuring its newer vehicles with capacitors, which are basically maintenance-free, in order to handle the start-stop without any harm to the regular battery. Anyway, those deep-cycle batteries are still quite expensive, but seem to worth it even in a more conventional application.
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