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Old 06-05-2012, 10:25 PM
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A previous poster stated approximately $700 per year to charge the batteries?? That computes out to $60 per month. Seems a little pricy to me.

My electric bill is in the $60 range in the months that I am not here and around $85 per month when I am here. The additional $25 covers the added electrical demands from AC, appliances, etc. and charging my electric cart. When I am here in TV, we drive the wheels off the golf cart averaging 20-30 miles per day.

At $900 for a solar panel to get a negligable increase in mileage, take the $900, put in the bank, in 4 years withdraw $600 for a new set of batteries and take the leftover $300 and start another battery fund.

Until the solar panels get better and transfer more energy than barely a trickle charge into the batteries on a good day, I think that they is still a novelty.
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