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Originally Posted by villagetinker

OP, a standard automotive battery works great in a gas golf cart. Now you or a tech needs to figure out why your battery is draining. First remove the positive battery cable and install a DC ammeter, with the key turned off, you should have nearly zero milliampere reading. If you get a reading then you need to determine what is still on, as suggested above check the speedometer, and any other auxiliary equipment that has been installed. If all of this checks out, reconnect the battery cable, change the meter to volts DC and measure the voltage on the battery should be close to 12.5 VDC. Place the cart in neutral, turn on the key, start the cart and see if the voltage on the battery goes up to 13.5 to 14.5 VDC, if not you have a problem with the charging circuitry.

Bottom line you do not need a deep cycle or similar battery.

Ok, I’m going to do that. I suspect it is the after market Speedo with GPS they installed at The Villages Golf carts but your suggestion is very good. My husband (before he suddenly passed ) worked in power sports industry and bought a very good battery for the cart - and it worked well for the first year but after that I kept having to charge it back up every week even after driving the cart around for 20 min at a time.