Cruisin wrote:
My experience from unsatisfied customers using the floodies is 1 to 2 year with mediocre service.
EVDL Administrator wrote:
That's no doubt true with marine batteries. However, properly treated and maintained, golf car batteries should give you between 3 and 7 years of service, with 4-5 being pretty typical.
That has been my experience as well. Golf cart batteries last several times longer than marine batteries. My battery life with Trojan and US Battery has been on the long end, and with Sam's Club batteries on the short end. The Sam's Club batteries were cheaper, so the shorter life worked out about the same on a cost-per-mile basis.
how you treat them matters more than brand.
Absolutely true. Most batteries don't die of old age... they are *murdered*! They die when they have accumulated enough abuse (too much current, too deeply discharged, too much overcharging, etc.)
It always amazes me that people will spend thousands on their batteries, only to spend as little as possible to take care of them.
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