Battery pricing questions

[RPatten]

Your ideas could cost more than a battery conversion.

[scotter]

I had 1K acres just outside Abeline. Would drive elec cart within 400 yds of stand and walk in to stand. Other times drove 4wheeler direct to stand. Succesful hunts both ways. Some say deer don't care. Think it depends on the wind and how early you get to the stand as deer are grazers and mobile. No/low noise or scent and they keep coming. 3K acres is a lot of terrain. Gas may be the way to go with a silent exhaust. Batts may not have the distance/stamina you need.

[caokgafamily]

3000 acres is alot for an electric cart, I run my cart on 500 acres and it does the job. But its always on the charger when I'm back at the cabin. Yes gas stink, we play hide and seek at night with some of the gas carts and I can always find them from the smell.
Steve

[Budule]

I don't really understand or get gas carts.... I mean to each his own but why wouldn't you just get or use an atv or rhino (which I have and I don't care how much cash you throw at a cart, it aint gona measure up) type vehicle if you want gas?

[RPatten]

Originally Posted by caokgafamily

3000 acres is alot for an electric cart, I run my cart on 500 acres and it does the job. But its always on the charger when I'm back at the cabin. Yes gas stink, we play hide and seek at night with some of the gas carts and I can always find them from the smell.
Steve

I should say that a fair share of that land is swamp where nothing is going to go. So not all of the 3000 acres is accessible by cart. Or anything else. Just foot. We have places real 4 wheelers have no place going. By the time they get there they will have scared everything off.

We have decent roads which give us plenty of places to go on the property. One day soon I will measure all those roads. It is right incredible.

[rib33024]

If you want your batteries to last, you should never run the battery pack below the volts of the cart 36/48 when the cart reaches these volts 36 or 48 it's time to recharge, never run the cart till it stops

Originally Posted by RPatten

. We have 3k acres to hunt and the boys have already drained the batteries once.

[RPatten]

Tell that to my boys.

hey boys !!! GET A JOB !!!
oh flash back

[jakesnake27]

HEY BOYS, get it home when it reaches 48v!!!

[RPatten]

Originally Posted by crash test dummy

hey boys !!! GET A JOB !!!
oh flash back

They're 14 & 16. Their job is school work and yard work right now.

I have a gauge to install for the battery monitoring.

Right now I don't have to worry about it since a battery terminal nut came lose and melted down that particular terminal. New batteries and cables to come.

And no, I am not replacing things just for one battery. As put out earlier, I have mismatched things and I want to fix it. The fried terminal is now the finishing touch on the old batteries.