12 Volt Battery Life

garysmith39555

Simple question.....Regardless of the brand, care, and type of usage; how many years out of your 12's???? Mine, 4 years and still strong.

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HGC2010

Have 07 (original batteries) in my precedent and still runs fine but not like as good as they used to be. I believe I will have to change next spring but, taking care of the batteries surely improves the life of the batteries.

So all in all I will get 5 years out of the batteries but once again, they have been taken care of.

erict

The cart I bought still has the original Trojans. They are 6 years old.

scubabud

Mine are nearly 3 years old... but I did have to replace #4 about a year ago. Since then I installed a converter using all 4 instead of just #4 for the needed 12 volts.

Stevec3201

Mine were OEM Trojans from 12-07 and I just bought new ones I don't know how well the original owner maintained them, but I had to add water and clean them off when I bought the cart. If the originals lasted over 4 years, I'm sure I can get at least 5, as I'm slighty OCD

3 out of 4 were working ok, but #4 started to lose volts, so I replaced them all. Just like scuba, I'm putting on a converter for my lights and other stuff. I have not used lights since buying new batts, as the converter is on back-order.

Note: My cart ran just over 25MPH with old batteries, now it runs 30MPH +/-

Colbyntx

Steve, I may be wrong but I think your 07 has a plus up front on the passenger side where the CC light kit just plugs in! Check it out!

Stevec3201

Yeah, the lights are hooked up (and working) to #4 from the cc light kit, but I don't want to run off just one battery anymore, now that I have new batteries.

That is what you are saying, right?

Colbyntx

That may be right! I thought you didn't need a reducer for those precedents until they changed the harness with the new battery tray in 08???

Stevec3201

Your correct, you don't need a converter (reducer), but if you want to draw voltage from the entire pack, not just #4, then install a converter.

Many believe that running your lights off one battery will upset the entire pack due to #4 requiring more charge time, thus over-charging 1-3.

To ensure the longest life out of your batts, you must keep the entire pack as equal as possible.

trigger1937

Steve,... There is something else going on with the #4 battery and I've seen it on the last 3 carts I have had. The battery that is used for the lights and the charger or OBC gets used more and always seems to be the first battery to go week. I just got a 2008 Precedent that had 2010 +12 Volt batteries. It came off a Golf Course and it has no lights or any other accessories. The #4 battery was not usable as the 1st cell would not take a charge. I got the deeler to give me another Trojan that check out ok.

Steve,.. do you know if once you have converted the lights over to your 48 to 12 converter, does the OBC or anything else still use #4 exclusively????