Jump starting truck with golf cart battery.
 

I helped out one of our Villages' area workers when his truck died last night and he needed a jump start. He said that a golf cart battery would work and it did but am wondering if a lot of this depends on the battery size? 12 volt or some other kind?

The worker got off on his way and I did my good deed for the day. And made a friend. I see this worker often around.

Never though it would work. I am interested in the comments. My assumption is that as long as you used either a 6,8 or 12 volt battery you are ok. You are just adding a little power to the car battery and that was enough to start the car. Did you use all of your batteries in the cart or just one? Was is the voltage of your batteries?

he had to have a gas cart 12volt , try that with an electric cart and you will fry the trucks ele sytem 48 volts:boom:

Gas cart 12 volt is what I believe is in our 2014 Yamaha.

I would not have tried it if we had an electric golf cart.

That makes sense. I originally though the batteries would have to be the same voltage but I knew all golf cart batteries were not 12 volt.

As long as you use 12 V to 12 V it will work fine. Most newer gas carts are 12 V. If you had an electric cart with 8 6 V batteries and just used the cables across 2 of them so you were going 12 to 12 it would also work.

I have jumped our van with our gas golf cart which has a 12 volt battery. We left the side door open and the light was on for the night.

Golf cart 12v batteries are just smaller car batteries. they still have cold cranking ampere with enough amp to turn over most vehicles except diesels or V10s which require really big batteries. So , yes the smaller cart battery will crank 4,6, or 8 cylinder engine for awhile.