Battery Storage

[ccbreder]

Here in my quarter, Batteries plus Bulbs sell the same East Penn/Deka batteries as Sam's Club at the same price, no membership fee. Labeled Duracell.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Online prices of Sam's club gc-2s are 84$ a piece.  These are apparently made by Eastpenn Deka, at least in my region.

I have two of the Energizer GC2 batteries from Sam's Club purchased 2+ years ago at $86 (+$10 each core charge).  Still going strong with a specific gravity of 1.285 ±.005.  I don't think you can do much better than $0.41 per AH.  I found a friend with a membership.  Checking SG every month and add a little water is the only maintenance I do.

A friend had a Bug with the battery under the seat.  Forgot to put the +ve cap on once.  Every time we went over a bump the rear seat would flex enough to short the battery and everything electric in the car would shut off.

 -- Spiff

 

[Mobilesport]

Too bad Sam's club and Cosco don't sell one day memberships. I live 60+ miles away, so would go there rarely.

I dont have a Sams club membership so i go in and pay a 10% upcharge , after getting $18 a piece for core charges back the 2 golf cart batteries cost me about $200 for the pair.

 

[Baloo]

Mercedes Benz puts them in the trunk on a lot of their models now, but it has an external vent tube.


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[Florida boondocker]

just picked up 4 Duracell high capacity SLIGC110 6v golf cart batteries for $492.00
 out the door including core at [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Batteries Plus Bulbs[/font]

 

[ccbreder]

They are the ones I have. 130 AH. They were $109 each. The owner at B+B waved the core charge as he "made a deal".

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

That said, there are numerous people who ignore Best Practice without suffering any apparent harm.  Indeed, the original Volkswagen had the battery under the back seat, and they only built a couple gazillion of them, without any apparent problem.  Well, if you ignore the occasional fire when people removed the shield from the positive post.

I just laughed out loud and took a trip down memory lane when I read this.  My Dad had a 69 beetle when we were kids (mid 80's)  My dad would make the youngest sit over the battery because he didn't weigh enough yet to compress the seat onto the battery terminals.  Once we all weighed enough to compress it, we'd fight over who sat where, cause the seat would get so hot it would burn us.  Eventually my Dad solved it by placing a piece of cardboard between the battery and seat.  Thinking back I wonder why neither of my parents cared the battery was making the seat so hot lol, the good ole days.  I'm also wondering how a family of 5 got along in such a small car.  People are spoiled rotten now a days!