On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

> 12v batteries are often a poor choice for applications like this. Most of
> them are little more than ordinary ICE starting batteries, and won't hold
> up for long. There are a *few* 12v batteries that truly are deep-cycle, but
> you won't find them at Sears or Walmart. They are sold by industrial
> battery dealers for floor sweepers, pallet jacks, and other commercial
> in-plant EVs.
>

I had seen references on list to Interstate deep cycle batteries, and
thought that their marine deep cycle batteries were so; I was looking at
the SRM-27B. I used the information at
http://www.interstatebatteries.com/cs_eStore/content/product_info/marine_f.aspand
the calculator at
http://www.evdl.org/uve/battery.html to come up with a peukert exponent of
1.2565 and a 100A (worst case, I hope!) ~30 minute discharge time.

Golf cart batteries are big. I'd have to figure out whether I could even
fit them on this platform. I don't think I could fit 8 6V golf cart
batteries. The 12V golf cart batteries I've seen are all too big to fit;
the group 27 size are a tight squeeze, and say a set of four Trojan T-1260
I don't think I can find a way to fit. 6 8V T875 would have more runtime
than I need and I haven't figured out how I would fit them either though
it's probably more likely to be possible.
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