Can you use this Battery Minder to keep an electric golf carts batteries (6 of them) charged for 5 months?
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I believe the limit would be 4 (2x 6v in a series/parallel configuration). To be sure, contact the BatteryMinder folks. I'm using it on 4 7 year old golf carts myself although I have 6 total from a previous solar setup.
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No. I had this one first to maintain the 4 batteries on my semi tractor and it shutdown after 3 days. I contacted the company and they said that they found out that the model 1500 will not do what they advertise it will do and they said that I would need the model 2012 instead. I returned the 1500 and got the 2012 and it works fine. I have no idea if the 2012 will handle 6 batteries or not. I would contact the company.
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It is a very good charger, i us it on only one 12v battery currently, but i see no reason why it would not maintain the charge on your batteries as long as they are hooked as a 12v system, i am sure it would be more effective it you did one at a time and cycled them through
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I would add to my previous comment that you would want to bring them to full charge with charger and use the BatteryMinder only as a maintainer/desulfator. They should all be in similar condition. If you find one 12v pairing has a lesser condition, I would suggest desulfating the pairs separately, spending more time on the weaker pair. From what I understand, desulfating a bank in series/parallel will tend to favor the batteries that are in better condition. You can make a Kentucky windage determination of condition by measuring resting voltage or be more precise by measuring specific gravity of each cell. I would add to my previous comment that you would want to bring them to full charge with charger and use the BatteryMinder only as a maintainer/desulfator. They should all be in similar condition. If you find one 12v pairing has a lesser condition, I would suggest desulfating the pairs separately, spending more time on the weaker pair. From what I understand, desulfating a bank in series/parallel will tend to favor the batteries that are in better condition. You can make a Kentucky windage determination of condition by measuring resting voltage or be more precise by measuring specific... » Read More I would add to my previous comment that you would want to bring them to full charge with charger and use the BatteryMinder only as a maintainer/desulfator. They should all be in similar condition. If you find one 12v pairing has a lesser condition, I would suggest desulfating the pairs separately, spending more time on the weaker pair. From what I understand, desulfating a bank in series/parallel will tend to favor the batteries that are in better condition. You can make a Kentucky windage determination of condition by measuring resting voltage or be more precise by measuring specific gravity of each cell. « Show Less
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The 1500 can only charge 2 batt at a time in elect. series.There is higher model but I believe that one is limited to 3 maybe 4 hooked in a series.
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Unknown. I use this battery for ham radio. Not sure of the power requirements of a golf cart. Good luck.
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My guess, you will have to get it from the company, or at least call them. FYI, I bought mine at a truck sale, when 5.3 was current. Neuton had a tech expert there who said that lead-acid batteries must be kept charged. I kept mine plugged in over the winter, no problems this spring. Letting it discharge completely is bad for the battery.
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No. The batteries are in series typically 36 or 48 volt systems. If you were to hook this up to only one 12v battery in a golfew cart it would drain the battery unevenly and damage that battery
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Sorry, but I have no experience with your application. I use mine in my motor home with 6 V golf batteries in series.
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Yes, I use it for my golf cart and it works fine I have been using it over 6 months
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I would say "yes". I have it hooked it to two 6v golf cart batteries (wired in series) for house batteries in the motor home.
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Yes, Thats how I always used it. This battery will die after a couple of years. Might that be your problem?
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I have never used the manual setting, but have 5 of the chargers and just set them on the type of battery and leave them on permantly. The golf cart, motorcycles, etc. and have not had to replace a battery in over 4 years now. If I could find my manual, it might tell if it goes into the charge mode! Good Luck, Jim
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I have a 48 volt e-z go golf cart and wanted to run lights on it for a fun night parade. each battery is 8 volts and there are 6 under the seat of the cart. So I hooked on to the positive of battery number one and the negative of battery number 3----making a 24 volt package---the inverter worked fine and ran my lights and boom box.
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I have an RV and store the battery during the winter hooked up to it. It's now 6 years old and still fine.
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Hi! Indeed it can, but will not maintain them perfectly equally among all batteries. I have mine connected to 4 155AH batteries in series (48V) that are all identical, and it does an adequate job on a very technical, high-spec installation. It will do a golf cart battery sufficiently that you will not notice a difference between batteries.
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It probably depends on how bad they are run down. However, I recently used it to individually recharge 6 volt golf cart batteries that were down to 1 volt.
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You could do that, sure, but the idea of the charger is to maintain, not recharge. They should call it a maintainer instead! It won't charge a dead battery; rather, it'll keep a live battery from going dead. So--if you know the battery is live, you might do as you've said, but if your trailer was mine, I'd keep the battery attached to the charger full time. That's what I do, and it works. Eric
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I would say it can be done. Having done a lot of electronics in my day it seems like a no brainier. The battery in the unit is a Lead Acid type so the charge circuit should work fine. You should consider a sealed Lead acid Battery rather than a standard Car battery or consider wiring several in parallel. The sealed battery will be much safer to store in general. If you use a standard Car battery, you could find your self boiling it or deep discharging it. In either event that would not go well if you stored in someplace that is not acid safe. You can get a pair of 9AH sealed batteries for $20 and almost quadruply this units capacity. The one in this unit is only 5AH. Just wire them parallel and you should be fine. Honestly, I would not use a standard car battery unless I stored it in my garage or at least out side my living space. One last thing to consider is that by adding a bigger battery, you are only increasing the length of time you can support the load without the Grid. You can not put a heavier load on the unit. The inverter will only safely put out the rated power no mater how big the battery is.
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Hello I tried the refurbish kit for the golfcart batteries and when i go back to Florida this winter i am going to replace the batterys.. i don;t think the kit did anything for me, but it was a very low cost try so i tried it. maybe you will have better luck then i did but my batteries are now 5 years old so they are ready to be replaced...good luck.......
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Not sure, I would contact Battery Tender Company,I'm sure they could advise you.