6 volt vs 12 volt batteries for boondocking
Hi all, While waiting for our new 28' Stealth toy hauler we're trying to figure out the best batteries to get for when we're back in the hills camped off the grid. We ordered the optional 200 watt ...
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30 minutes for what kind of game? 18 holes of golf for a foursome is no joke. Figure 15 minutes per hole? About four minutes per person? Four to 5 strokes.
The fewer cars need the more money they make. If, they squeeze more ampere hours under the seat. Golf pros have to impress the owner with hoodoo abstract cost calculations and workups. What sells this stuff is the magical "Ooooo the cars can almost make three 36 hole rounds" ALMOST is the enemy of the golf car 3 cell. The scrubber outperforms it - at the cost of lifespan.
A new scrubber is not a bad battery. But it will misbehave when a GC220 does not. Lose cell's gravity equality and be harder to restore. But this can get to be a semantics quagmire as I am stating observations using a Trojan T-105 baseline.
It pays to keep in mind that an RV golf car or scrubber battery is subjected to a totally different environment than from their intended use. 36 holes then a recharge or 10,000 square feet then a recharge is completely different than a four day dribble discharge then partial recharge. The use permutations are endless as are maintenance permutations. How many folks bother to do anything else except ***** about campsite battery performance, then when they get home they stick the plug into a socket and walk away. Ever see the DIFFERENCE between an RV charger and professional golf or floor scrubber charger?
So if I should hear someone at a golf course spout a tangent about minutes rating of a battery I know their forte is based on comparison and has virtually nothing to do with actual values. Four "loaded" golfers veering all over the rough and plowing through sand traps could consume 5x the kWh of a normal golfer. 9 holes in Phoenix or Atlanta in July may consume a fraction of the power that would be used in Portland or Northern Minnesota. My one and only real golf game at age 18. My high school chum fancied himself as the quintessential Scottish genetic golf guru. Back and forth we went from the pin to the intended target. Silverado Golf Course. I stunned the crowd by making A Hole In Seventeen. I never looked back.
The fewer cars need the more money they make. If, they squeeze more ampere hours under the seat. Golf pros have to impress the owner with hoodoo abstract cost calculations and workups. What sells this stuff is the magical "Ooooo the cars can almost make three 36 hole rounds" ALMOST is the enemy of the golf car 3 cell. The scrubber outperforms it - at the cost of lifespan.
A new scrubber is not a bad battery. But it will misbehave when a GC220 does not. Lose cell's gravity equality and be harder to restore. But this can get to be a semantics quagmire as I am stating observations using a Trojan T-105 baseline.
It pays to keep in mind that an RV golf car or scrubber battery is subjected to a totally different environment than from their intended use. 36 holes then a recharge or 10,000 square feet then a recharge is completely different than a four day dribble discharge then partial recharge. The use permutations are endless as are maintenance permutations. How many folks bother to do anything else except ***** about campsite battery performance, then when they get home they stick the plug into a socket and walk away. Ever see the DIFFERENCE between an RV charger and professional golf or floor scrubber charger?
So if I should hear someone at a golf course spout a tangent about minutes rating of a battery I know their forte is based on comparison and has virtually nothing to do with actual values. Four "loaded" golfers veering all over the rough and plowing through sand traps could consume 5x the kWh of a normal golfer. 9 holes in Phoenix or Atlanta in July may consume a fraction of the power that would be used in Portland or Northern Minnesota. My one and only real golf game at age 18. My high school chum fancied himself as the quintessential Scottish genetic golf guru. Back and forth we went from the pin to the intended target. Silverado Golf Course. I stunned the crowd by making A Hole In Seventeen. I never looked back.
