wopachop wrote:
Let me please back up and make this more of a general question. Ignoring factors like ambient temps and abuse.
Do golf cart batteries like to be exercised with normal cycling?
Or would they last longer sitting on a shelf and getting charged when they reach 70 percent?
They will last longer doing shallow cycles than if doing deep cycles. If in "storage", the guides say to do a deep cycle every month or whenever. The frequency of this occasional deep cycle depends on the ambient temp. More often in hot temps, less often in cold temps.
There is a school that says 6v GCs should not be floated so much. Just disconnect once full and let them self-discharge to about 75% then recharge them to full again. I don't know if that is better. Xantrex Truecharge chargers had the option to shut off the third, Float stage, for that reason.
