New Battery AH's

Hip79

I read a post here that stated new batteries won't have full potential of AH's and should be fully charged before using the first time which takes a long time. My question is I didn't learn of this until after I used cart down to 70 % the first time. It's been a month since new and the cart is driven at most 20-30 minutes a day slow to medium and charged at 37v on DVM. Have I lost the full AH potential and should I just plug in after every day. I have Cube EZ Go auto charge with just green light?

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JohnnieB

Go forth and sin no more...

You cannot go back and undo what has been done, but if the batteries never sat overnight below 70% SoC, their storage capacity and life expectancy probably hasn't been reduce all that much.

Lead-Acid batteries have no memory, so they do not have to be discharged down to some arbitrary level before recharging. In fact, the higher the average SoC maintained, the longer their useful lifespan.

Recharge after each use, or if numerous short trips are being made, recharge each night.

When the EZGO charger (Powerwise QE) fails, replace it with a DPI Accusense charger, which float charges after the regular cycle terminates and keeps the batteries at 100% SoC.

Hip79

Thanks, I didn't think lead acid had a memory either, now I sure. Again thanks for useful information.

yurtle

Here's a good place for break-in info:

http://www.cartsunlimited.net/Batter...n_Methods.html

In fact, there are many good articles on batteries and upgrades.