>"Having just bought & installed a yellow top aux. battery last weekend
>($170), & read the instructions, yellow top batteries are listed as deep
>cycle & starting batteries. If you want to use it for starting, you connect
>the side post locations, if you want to run aux. Devices off of it, you use
>the top posts. 1 year warranty like mentioned above."

Maybe dumb question - why would side or top connect matter?  Don't they
internally connect together?

Chris