Bulldog batteries anyone?

JGDUSC

Been seeing these commercials more and more lately here in Columbia SC. A search on this site revealed little. Interesting claims by the owner in this video about the 2XREP


Wonder what they cost compared to a good ole Trojan?

BGW

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Georgia Jeff

Those are bold claims. 2X the run time. I wonder if they are twice as expensive.

Dadog70

Looks like a good battery have to do some reading on them and curious what the price will be?.

Volt_Ampere

I say BS! If it has increased run time, then it will require increased charge watt-hours to charge it. There is no energy free lunch here! They say directly that you will save on your electric bill. You Won't!

JohnnieB

with Volt_Ampere

Lead–acid batteries, were invented by French physicist Gaston Planté in 1859 and have been improved upon considerably in the past 154 years, but I have heard politicians make more believable claims and some of the customer testimonies defy the laws of physics.

Regardless of the batteries being used, it take a specific number of Watt-Hours to move a golf cart from Point-A to Point-B and that same number of Watt-Hours has to be returned to the battery to recharged it to its original State of Charge.

Battery charging isn't 100% efficient, so it takes more Watt-Hours from the fossil fueled power plant to recharge the battery than was expended moving the cart from Point-A to Point-B, however the efficiency of the battery charging process will be roughly the same if you moved the cart from Point-A to Point-B once per charge, twice per charge or many times per charge.

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For double the run-time of a 225AH battery (IE: T-105), the 2XREP would have to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 450AH and it would have to be stuffed into a box roughly the same dimensions as a T-105, if it was going to fit into the cart without modifying the stock battery frame.

It will be interesting to see the size, weight and AH specs, but I can't find them.

subby44

I had a few free min. this morning so I called bulldog battery. this is what i was told..

You need a charger that will charge at least 25 to 28 dc amps.. the batteries are rated at 330ah. and they are 154.00 each..

subby44

the # is 1 800-443-3492 The website is www.bulldog-battery.com they had good customer service and answered all of my questions well.. nice people..

JohnnieB

If it is the 20 hour AH rating, 330Ah would give the at least 50% more run-time, but I am skeptical about double the run time.

That is not a bad price for a high AH battery.

Too bad I wasn't aware of them last fall, I might have tried a set.

kgsc

JGDUSC, I am pretty sure there is a company over near Newberry on 34 that sells batteries and I think it may be Bulldog.. Can't remember.. I called them one time before and their price was close to what I can get Trojans for so it was a no brainer.. I will see if I can find it again..

subby44

I will have to check my charger. I am not sure it is large enough to charge the batteries to full capacity.. I am not sure of the chargers strength.