Best bang for the buck Golf Cart battery
The dealer we are buying our toy hauler from will be putting two golf cart batteries in it tomorrow. I will have to bring the batteries as their battery guy will not be there in time to deliver golf c...
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My opinion backed by some experience.
If your use is occasional, maybe 4wks out/year Sams, Costco, interstate, etc. will give lots of bang for the buck and be reasonably price. Age will overcome cycles with lower use.
If you plan on LOTS of dry camping and LOTS of charge discharge cycles (75+/year) then the bucks for Tojans may pay off with longer life.
BTW Trojan (and I suspect most other GC2 FLA batteries) are rated for near 500 charge discharge cycles to 25% SOC (75% DOD) I've done near that and still had good batteries. If you hold discharge to 50% DOD then cycle life is near 1000 cycles. Not many campers will be using batteries that heavily.
The KEY is to make sure they get FULLY charged up when you return. And fully means a while at 14.2+ V, NOT 13.6V
If your use is occasional, maybe 4wks out/year Sams, Costco, interstate, etc. will give lots of bang for the buck and be reasonably price. Age will overcome cycles with lower use.
If you plan on LOTS of dry camping and LOTS of charge discharge cycles (75+/year) then the bucks for Tojans may pay off with longer life.
BTW Trojan (and I suspect most other GC2 FLA batteries) are rated for near 500 charge discharge cycles to 25% SOC (75% DOD) I've done near that and still had good batteries. If you hold discharge to 50% DOD then cycle life is near 1000 cycles. Not many campers will be using batteries that heavily.
The KEY is to make sure they get FULLY charged up when you return. And fully means a while at 14.2+ V, NOT 13.6V
