adding 12v battery

[buck77]

just got doing mine...i used a everstart deep cycle marine batt.got it tied down and wired lights to it...it fits great in the batt. compartment on driver side of my cart...next will be the radio and speakers!!:This golf cart stuff is as addective as the jeeps and 4wheelers!!!

[as350pilot]

How about a 12v lawn mower battery? Or would they be too small?

[Spawn]

I just droped one in the drivers side as well and doing the hook up so it charges with the pack. Runs a radio all day by itself. And it can share some amps to the pack if needed.

[rib33024]

Originally Posted by Spawn

I just droped one in the drivers side as well and doing the hook up so it charges with the pack. Runs a radio all day by itself. And it can share some amps to the pack if needed.

I want to hear more about this, can you tell us how this works

[kab69440]

I also use a stand alone 12v. The battery is from a car I scrapped years ago. The only thing my 36v runs is the cart itself. I installed a power socket and just plug the 12v in at the end of the day when I charge the cart. No muss, no fuss.

[buck77]

spawn, i'd also like to know how you hooked up to your other batt.

[Spawn]

Andy Posted this drawing and I did it as well.

http://www.buggiesgonewild.com/elect...batteries.html

[rib33024]

adding 12v battery



This aint the same thing you are talking about in this post, come on man,your talking about putting a another 12v battery on the driver side, and hooking it up to charge with your other batteries. ???
and in this other post your telling us how to hook up to two 6v batteries to get 12v

Originally Posted by Spawn

I just droped one in the drivers side as well and doing the hook up so it charges with the pack. Runs a radio all day by itself. And it can share some amps to the pack if needed.

Originally Posted by Spawn

Andy Posted this drawing and I did it as well.

http://www.buggiesgonewild.com/elect...batteries.html

[Scooter B]

Originally Posted by as350pilot

How about a 12v lawn mower battery? Or would they be too small?

I almost did it this way, it would work...but you would not get much juice between charges. Deep cycle marine is the way to go, if you don't want to stop and charge every other day.

[Spawn]

Rib look at the drawing Andy did. It is a 12 volt battery tied in just like you would if you were running lights off the main pack. In this case all that does is charge all 6 of the pack batteries and the AUX 12 volt battery. If you dont add the switch he has shown then you could theoretically pull amps off the 12volt battery in to the main pack.
I wouldnt advise that but If you can charge all 7 batteries off the same charger than why not? Your still powering all you items off a battery that isnt the main drive pack of 6 or 8 batteries. This could also be used in a 48 volt setup as long as you used 6 volt batts for the main pack.