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Apr 22, 2017Explorer
Whew bucks up daddy. A Rolls extended chassis to go grocery shopping. Wanna hear something to make whiskers stand out on end.
For primarily leapfrogging from hookup to hookup a high antimony golf car battery is the worse choice. Needless antimony to achieve zero benefit. An AGM would offer zero maintenance, but 24/7/365 floating means much more careful attention to float temperature compensation.
IMHO it just ain't worth it. Most hybrid six cell car jar batteries are 1.75% antimony. They can withstand a dozen or two or three hammerings in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The 105 to 85 amp hour increase ratio between a group 29 to a group 24 is far more important.
Then there is the solid 18 karat gold TIMEX watch philosophy to counter all this...
For primarily leapfrogging from hookup to hookup a high antimony golf car battery is the worse choice. Needless antimony to achieve zero benefit. An AGM would offer zero maintenance, but 24/7/365 floating means much more careful attention to float temperature compensation.
IMHO it just ain't worth it. Most hybrid six cell car jar batteries are 1.75% antimony. They can withstand a dozen or two or three hammerings in a Wal-Mart parking lot. The 105 to 85 amp hour increase ratio between a group 29 to a group 24 is far more important.
Then there is the solid 18 karat gold TIMEX watch philosophy to counter all this...
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