Duracell Ultra 6V Golf Cart Battery

My golf cart batteries came from Sam's Club, and I think they're Duracell branded. (I can't tell for sure without pulling them out of the battery holder in my motorhome, and I'm not about to do that on a night like this.) They were about $90 each all told, and would have been a little less if I were a full member rather than making use of a one-day trial membership coupon. Both Sam's Club and Costco have golf cart batteries at around this price in many locations.

Duracell doesn't manufacture lead acid batteries, but just relabels ones made by one (or more) of the handful of actual manufacturers, the same as quite a few other brands. My batteries were made by East Penn (that part of the label is visible), whatever their brand may be. They seem to be working as advertised.

If you do get pairs of batteries at different times, be careful to keep the pairs together so that each series chain of two batteries has batteries of identical age.

I put 4 DURA CELL 6 volts from Sams along with 2 31 series Dura Cells in our coach two years ago with no problems to date. keep terminals clean, electrolyte topped and equalize every six months and all is well.

I have been using Duracell Golf cart batteries for about 3 years now. No problems so far.

They do seem to get corroded battery terminals purdy quickly. Though cleaning them once a year seems to do the trick. After the 2nd year I had to add water.

I don't know what camper you have but, I ordered a upgraded battery converter/charger from Best Converters. It does a much, much, better job of taking care of the battery's then what the old converter/chargers did years ago.

I bought 4 Duracell 6 volt last week in Tallahassee at Sams . The price had come down some , $ 84 each . Eighteen dollar each core charge if ya did not have a core .

Earlier this year, we were going to replace the two 12volt house batteries with a pair of 6 volt Trojans. Our issue was that the 6 volts are too tall for our battery tray (under the steps of our Class C). I decided to go with a pair of Duracell group 31's from Sams. Saw them on their website. Went to our local Sam's and they didn't have them. Said they have never seen them there. Called another Sam's club about 30 miles away, they told me the same thing. Went to Batteries + bulbs. They had them. Gave me the online discount at the store and even installed them for me. One of my terminal wires was broken (wasn't aware) and they replaced that as well. Am very happy with the two 12volt duracells so far.

Wow, great feedback on the Duracells, and Battery +. Guess I'll be going that route. Thanks!

I have a pair of these and have used them for just over a year. They have worked great and I haven't had any issues at all. My charger is a Progressive Dynamics PD4045 and it works great as well. I do check the water levels in the batteries once a month and every so often I do need to add distilled water.

The batteries were much cheaper than others I looked at and these were available close by, so I got them. No regrets at all.


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CavemanCharlie wrote:

They do seem to get corroded battery terminals purdy quickly. Though cleaning them once a year seems to do the trick.

1. Clean the posts and terminals with baking soda and water. Rinse well and dry
2. Put a good gob of axle grease on top of the posts and spread it out at least 1/2" past the edge of the post.
   Replace terminals
3. Put another gob of axle grease on top making sure to cover all of the metal.

CavemanCharlie wrote:
After the 2nd year I had to add water.

You really should check the fluid level at least every 6 months, more often if you are in a warm area of have a lot of charge/discharge cycles.

wbwood wrote:
Earlier this year, we were going to replace the two 12volt house batteries with a pair of 6 volt Trojans. Our issue was that the 6 volts are too tall for our battery tray (under the steps of our Class C). I decided to go with a pair of Duracell group 31 ...

As long as they are a true "deep cycle" battery, not the dual purpose ones.

I just checked the Duracell website. None of the deep cycle marine battery specify a Reserve Capacity (typically at 20A). Very odd.