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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Dusty R wrote:
If you are out in the middle of now where and one battery goes bad, and you have 2 6 volt batteries in series, now what do you do?
This argument comes up from time to time, and although it sounds logical, there's little evidence to back it up.
There are already plenty of series connections in your electrical system. Solar panels are little cells, all connected in series. 12v batteries are just 6 -2v cells in series encased in one jar. You don't worry about those. It is true that if one 6v actually does happen to 'fail' catastrophically, you would not have 12v. But there's no more likelihood of that happening than there is for a solar panel to fail or a 12v battery to fail. And if one 12v battery fails, what does that mean? If it's a dead short, the other battery won't be around long.
If a catastrophic failure is part of your emergency planning, then carrying a spare 12v battery is your safest bet. I carry two.
Batteries rarely fail catastrophically, they fail because the user wants to keep them in service too long and wring every last ah out of them.
