Costco vs Sams Club 6V Golf Cart Batteries
Hi, I'm about to buy two new 6V golf cart batteries for my TT. I am choosing between the Costco and the Sams Club 6V batteries. Here is all the stats provided for each battery where I live: Co...
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bartlettj wrote:
Any comments on the shelf life of the GC2 batteries from Costco? One Costco has the batteries dated 8/12 (It's March 20th today), the other near me has them dated 12/12. I realize that some Costco's probably don't sell a lot of golf cart batteries and I'd get the newest ones I can. I'm sure they don't check the charge level of the batteries that are sitting around on the shelf.
They are $86 at my local Costco, and the cheapest I can find Trojans locally is about $140, so I can almost buy 4 Costco GC2's for the price of 2 T-105's and nearly double the battery capacity. Plus, Costco will take any old lead acid battery as a core so I've got a couple of crappy little Honda starting batteries sitting in my garage to get rid of...
I went to a different Costco (there are several stores in my area), and I found a pair dated 3/13. Looking around at other GC2 batteries, they have the same style cases (caps, top, terminals) as the US battery 2000 xc2's.
Now- a philosophical question:
Hook them up and charge them in series with the WFCO 8955 converter I have and just start using them?
Or charge them individually with my cheapo 10A automotive charger until they bubble for a bit and then hook them up to the WFCO?
