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That thread appears to have been closed and I can't add additional information. Addressing this to time2roll...Thanks for your post. I have a better sense of things now. Agreed...just need to figure ...
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cannesdo wrote:There are some great 12v deep cycle batteries and many are still combo batteries. ALL GC2 Golf Car batteries are designed for deep cycling as they are built to spend the day being abused on the golf course.
The manual says marine batteries are acceptable but recommends true deep cell or golf cart deep cell. I was thinking that with 200 Ah 6v batteries you'd have 400Ah so the total Ah of 4 6v golf batteries won't be much higher than 4 12v deep cell batteries. So what's the advantage? They last longer? This gives me only 200 Ah to play with. How do you know when you're at 50%? I do have green, orange and red lights on the control panel. Nothing below orange?
Also more effort needed to balance the wire connections on four batteries vs the GC2.
Voltage gives a pretty good indication of charge level. Or you need a battery monitor that actually counts Ah that have been removed from the battery. People love their monitors. Myself I would prefer to just have an additional two batteries and wing it.
The light on your inverter/charger is just a voltage indicator. At some point you need to convert green, yellow, orange, red to numerical volts.
