Battery Upgrade

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
"Does a GC battery allow deeper discharge or do they just have more capacity to start with?"

You need to specify what type of construction. GC flooded batteries are fundamentally different from auto jar batteries.

Golf car AGM batteries have taller plates of the same construction as their car jar batteries.

Flooded GC batteries can tolerate and recover from far worse abuse than can the same campany's car jar RV battery. It's more a question of durability than capacity.

AGM batteries have better voltage level retention under load compared to any flooded RV or GC battery.

If a person believes that there isn't a universe of difference between a premium brand and a membership warehouse battery then they are going to learn the hard way. This does not apply to weekend warriors who do not tax capacity and performance.

What is almost never discussed is how easy or not a flooded battery gets recharged. The difference is generator run time versus ampere hours returned not just claimed or believed. I've seen newer bargain batteries act like aged premium batteries in ease of recharging.

Driving all the way across town to save ten cents a gallon on gasoline reveals a person's mental structure. Fussy about food, near superstitious about tires. Picky about flashlight battery brands, wait a week and pay triple for a haircut but then drive-across-town for a gasoline bargain battery (metaphor for battery knowledge).