Old, flat, leisure (golf) battery

Most modern chargers won't connect to a totally flat battery.

Try jumping another battery across it with the charger connected for a few minutes, then disconnect the slave battery. Many even cheap chargers like the Lidl/Aldi will then pulse charge in an attempt to recover a totally flat battery. But I'd not bank on it working well enough ever again.

Or same time and bin it. It's f***ed.

Bill

Yes - but doesn't cost anything other than time to try.

Time saved is life lengthened.

Bill

Well, I'd say that basically you need to find out what the parameters are for the battery, and see if you can get something similar. It may of course not fit anywhere convenient, but there is the DIY bit!

If the cart is what you want, then not a lot to go wrong with them unless its been out in the weather for the whole 6 years, but remember Golf carts are actually not going to do really long distances, they get charged up often so not a great deal of range on them. Brian

That's my tune!

It'll cost me pushing an electric trolley around a golf course if it fails on me. The back 9 of our local course has a total of 480' in "ups", and that's assuming I hit the ball straight.

Thought you were retired now? ;-)

Rather obviously, if the old batteries do take a charge, have them checked for capacity. A decent battery shop should have a tester. Something like my ACT - which does a high current pulse test and calculates the true battery capacity in amp.hrs. Which you can check against the one stated on the case.

But as most have said, you will most likely have to replace them.

It's just not worth messing about. Golf buggies use a lot of battery, because the surface isn't hard, it is uneven, there are slopes, there's quite a lot of distance, the passenger is probably a lard-arsed bugger. The batteries are usually only just adequate when they're in good nick. Trying to make do with reduced capacity batteries is just going to lead to an annoying situation. £70 will buy two 22Ah batteries.

Bill

I think we're talking about a motorised golf club bag, not a golf buggy

Same argument then.

Bill

Trolley, not buggy

Well someone ripped someone off - replacement:

It's trivial really.

If you want cheapest, ebay. Be prepared for some to be lead weights of course.

Is there a problem with just carrying the golf clubs?

John

Professionals don't :)

Many golfers start with carrying their own bag. About 30lbs. As knees start to wobble and backs bend a trolley eases the aches and pains. By retirement the issue comes as to "am I playing golf or am I exercising?" and I'm just succumbing to an electric trolley for the challenging courses as I approach mid-70's. If I'm still going in another 5 years I'll either be playing on easier courses or hiring a ride-on-buggy.

I mentioned on another post that the back 9 has total elevations of

Perhaps you could try caddying. I did a little bit when a yougster.

You've not played golf then have you Bill?

Some pretty pictures for you:

That would have been my concern but I was responding to Mr Wright's "£70 will buy two 22Ah batteries." and I assume that he was talking quality being a knowledgable man on things practical.

I barely got change for one battery for that price hence my "ripped off" comment.