[RICK LAKE]

Bxx1 Ron as far as a battery, the more important thing is the CCA rating. I recommend 800cca if possible.A deep cycle battery is more for applications where a heavy draw is done for minutes at a time. Trolling motors on boats, winching a truck out of the mud, things like this. A regular car battery can do the same thing but drains faster. The car battery doesn't like to be drain repeatly. As far as the car sitting for months over the winter, you should pull the battery from the car, put it in a dry cool area, kept the battery level and on a piece of wood. A trickle charger on a timer. About10-15 minutes per day will keep it fully charged without burning it out. In the summer time you can leave the battery in the car and do the same thing with the trickle charger, again on a timer, no more that 10 minutes. With todays cars and all the electrical systems in a car, about 30 days is the max for a battery to stay charged enough to start a car. It depends on how many milliamps is being drawn with everything off 15 to 35 milliamps is what most GM cars are using. I can't answer for Ford, it's about the same. Hope this helps. Rick L.