GL: Battery-inverter-charger questions

[Brent Hodges]

From: "Ken Bloomfield" <khtb at bellsouth.net>
> I suspect that unless you go to a battery like the Surrette one, that you
> will get about 5 years from golf cart batteries Trojan or other.(endsnip)

I got 6 years out of the cheap Exide GC's, using a Freedom 25 inverter / 
smart charger. I'm in the middle of replacing them now with the Interstate 
2200's (I think that's the model). You can buy Interstate at Sams a little 
cheaper, but the ones off the truck are 12 amphours bigger (232 vs 220) and 
I can buy them wholesale through my work. I can't help but think that the 
batteries Interstate sells through their truck / distributer network may be 
built a little better than the Sam's models, but don't have any evidence to 
support that.

Brent Hodges
Seabrook, Tx