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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agesilaus wrote:bobsallyh wrote:
Sams Club or Costco. Although there are some people reporting that are having problems with newer Costco 6 volt batteries.
I have one pair of Trojan GC2 and one set of SamsClub. Both work fine but the Samsclub's were 40% less and about 80 miles driving to the dealer with the Trojans.
These Lithium battery lovers never mention the price which is well over $1000/battery. Maybe they will last a lot longer but they have not been in use long enough in RV's to tell. You can buy a lot of golf cart 6V batteries for the price of one Lithium and as he mentioned their performance drops like a rock in cool weather.
Don't know why you're saying 'well over $1000/battery'. I paid $700 Canadian for 100 AH LifePO4 (which works out to $520 USD). Also, the statement that performance drops like a rock in cold weather is just plain wrong. Lithium actually performs BETTER than wet cells for discharge in cold weather, holding their capacity much better. It's only charging in cold weather that can be an issue. This can be solved in a number of ways, best of which for me was to build an R10 foam box and put a waste tank heater underneath. Keeps batteries warm enough to charge in cold weather.
I get 90 usable AH out of a single 100 AH LifePO4 battery in cold weather. For a typical set of 2x6v gold cart batteries you'd probably get half that (say 215AH, 50% of which is usable, so 100 AH with up to 50% reduced efficiency in cold weather down to 0C), as the performance drop off is much higher.
