2008 Club Cab IQ 48V 150Ah Trojan T-1274 might be 1275 they are the flooded type, with six refillable holes per battery.
Electrolyte separated and water froze with weather at -30C and weeks and weeks of being away.
The Club Cab 48V charger (small box) is rated at like 14A or something, plugged in but obviously didnt do its job, or something else went wrong, I dunno. Are those chargers suppose to always keep the batteries charged? I see the cart controller on the back wall receives the charger output. Should we use four Battery Tender Junior's for each of the batteries when in storage? We already have two of them. Rated output is 0.750A = (750mA)
I am looking for a reasonably priced solution to keeping the battery compartment warm while its parked in the garage during winter months.
So far I have come up with
Gro-Quick Soil Heating Cables 48'
Battery Warmers are expensive
Another solution I was thinking of was a bedroom heated blanket from the thrift store.
DIY version would be Nichrome wire used in ecigs, sewn into any ole fabric, hooked up to a power source, which is all easy for me to do. However, the thermostat controlling it will need figuring out searching the DIY websites. I was thinking one big blanket snaking through the sides of the battery, and also sealing up the battery compartment and adding some insulation, perhaps foam.
I'd want something that is thermostatically controlled with the battery compartment air temprature.
Electrolyte separated and water froze with weather at -30C and weeks and weeks of being away.
The Club Cab 48V charger (small box) is rated at like 14A or something, plugged in but obviously didnt do its job, or something else went wrong, I dunno. Are those chargers suppose to always keep the batteries charged? I see the cart controller on the back wall receives the charger output. Should we use four Battery Tender Junior's for each of the batteries when in storage? We already have two of them. Rated output is 0.750A = (750mA)
I am looking for a reasonably priced solution to keeping the battery compartment warm while its parked in the garage during winter months.
So far I have come up with
Gro-Quick Soil Heating Cables 48'
Battery Warmers are expensive
Another solution I was thinking of was a bedroom heated blanket from the thrift store.
DIY version would be Nichrome wire used in ecigs, sewn into any ole fabric, hooked up to a power source, which is all easy for me to do. However, the thermostat controlling it will need figuring out searching the DIY websites. I was thinking one big blanket snaking through the sides of the battery, and also sealing up the battery compartment and adding some insulation, perhaps foam.
I'd want something that is thermostatically controlled with the battery compartment air temprature.