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I bought a charger at walmart gand tried to charge each battery separately. However, The charger automatically detects what voltage the battery is suppose to be and it thinks an 8V battery is a 6V battery and it won't charge them above 5.5v so I returned it. I borrowed a manual Sears charger and set it at 12V and 2 amps. I charged each battery to approxmately 7 Volts. (It should take about 1/2 hour each) and you have to monitor it because when the battery gets over 7 volts the charger can overheat! I found an 8 Volt Charger on Amazon from Battery Tender that will cost around $60 with shipping. It may not be a bad idea since you don't take any chances of smoking something.
After I got all of the batteries over 7 volts, I plugged in the regular cart charger and it started humming. What a great sound! It charged overnight and when I woke up next morning they were all charged above 8 Volts. All of the Specific Gravity reading were pretty low. ( I bought a SG tester at Advanced Auto Parts, for around $4). But all of my batteries were pretty dry and had new distilled water added so maybe they needed a few charges to bring the readings into acceptable range.
I ran the cart about 5 miles and rechecked the batteries and they all held over 8 volts which made me happy.
I recharged the cart last night and all of the voltage readings and SG readings improved.
So maybe I can squeeze some more life out of these batteries. I bought the cart with the house and for all I know, they may be the originals The cart is a 2002 Club Car.
I tried to attached my excel file readings but this program won't accept excel files so if anyone wants the readings, give me your e-mail address and I will send them to you. A Special thanks to AJBROWN
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