theoldwizard1 wrote:
RoyB wrote:
I am hoping I will get great performance out of the DURACELLS. This is the same battery COSTCO has here for sale I think.
Actually, Costco sells Interstate brand batteries. Interstate buys batteries from various suppliers (there was an Internet rumor that the Interstate GC2 bateries were actually Trojan t105, but no one could ever confirm that).
Sams sells Duracell brand batteries and they have 2 different kinds of 6V golf cart batteries, GC2 and EGC2, 215 and 230 AH, $85 and $118.
Thanks for the clarifications on COSTCO and SAMs CLub... We have the SAMs Club here so it looks like BATTERIES PLUS is failing right in line with SAMs Club cost for the Duracell 230AH at $114.99 each. I just looked again about their on-going 15% sale price which ends 4-30-2018 so I better get something on paper pretty quick hehe... I haven't confirmed yet these are in stock here locally but I can wait on that with no problem. At least I can pickup locally some 25 miles away from the house here in King George... Someone on here or maybe POPUP PORTAL forum said that BATTERY PLUS would be a good place to get batteries if you wasn't a member of Sam's CLub which I am not. My Neighbor is tho hehe...
I am starting to get excited now...
I decided to just order my internal 4AWG equal lengths short cables from AMAZON. They are the ANCOR brand cable I like. I am going to use RED and BLACK color adhesive heat shrink tubes to show which cable goes to which terminals on the batteries. I have some of this left over from my working days I can slip over the crimped on ring terminals. Have done that in the past for battery connections and it helps this old man from wiring up wrong when removing batteries... I also have cellphone photos of what it suppose to look like all connected up... Never had this much battery capacity before - Hope I don't blow up something...
This battery box sitting on my 14 R/T trailer tongue is also going to run my emergency power for my Radio/Computer Room here at the house when we lose power. Will have an extension running from the Trailer 1500WATT Power inverter to a couple of extension cord zones inside the house. Our small local power company doesn't get into any hurry sometimes after the storms go through here... Got to keep the house fridge going for sure... My Ham Radio/Computer room runs off of a small POWERWARE 5125 UPS Unit so I all I need to do is keep it running to keep its batteries charged. It will run off of its internal batteries for 4-5 hours as it is...
Trying to always have a good PLAN B...
Roy Ken