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Golf Cart batteries
We have been using golf cart batteries for five years from Walmart. I
believe they are made by Penn and have proven to be very durable. I gotta believe they are the best bang for the buck on the market. "Larry" wrote in message ... Jim wrote in news:Y4drg.4079$ye3.3854 @newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net: Costco has them for $62 each 225 AH, 6V at a 20 hour discharge rate. It's on the sticker on the side. Being taller, make sure you have the space over them so you can fill them during maintenance, comfortably. AS the floorspace footprint is much smaller, if you have the vertical space, you might be able to fit 4 or even 6 of them into the space the 8Ds came out of. 2 or 3 parallel banks is a lot of power at amazing amperages when needed, without overheading the one- house-battery. One or two marine battery switches to isolate and separate them, in case you lose one cell, allows you to run the rest until the bad cell can be replaced....redundant. Just parallel them all on BOTH when the charger is on them, distributing its current to slowly charge them all. $62 is a bargain. Being for rough service in golf carts that may roll over, mine don't leak a drop if inverted. Figure out what your maximum current the cabling can stand and put a heavy battery fuse in between each pair in the jumper. Mine have a 250A fuse using #2 cables. They crank a 6.2L V-8 diesel easily without that fuse even getting warm. If the battery charger didn't boil out the electrolyte overcharging and had enough capacity to reach 1.270 specific gravity, why screw around buying some electronic gadget with more failure modes and unproven reliability. Old battery chargers charging the same old lead-acid batteries that has worked for 20 years will do so another 20 years. Is there a downside in here somewhere?? |
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