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Old 11-30-2024, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by BrianNotFromNYC View Post
A deep cycle or marine battery has fewer and thicker plates inside. Its purpose is to run a very long time at full voltage. It it not for starting big motors. A car battery has many times more plates, that are thin. Its purpose is to have a big amount of current available to start big motors. The car battery works in a golf cart, but they do not last as long or stay charged up. So make sure your next battery is marine or deep cycle.
My golf cart battery stays completely charged up, if fact do to Yamaha defect it gets over charged, don’t matter what battery go in there it going to get over charged. They only make big engines In diesel and gas trucks