Anyone have any insight into where to get some replacements at a good price?

Thanks in advance.

Call a golf car rental companies.

For the Dell Golf Tournament we contract through Galf Carts of Dallas.

I ordered the AGM VMAX on line and they shipped them for free. I changed them out from the wet cells. Have had them for about three years. Really been happy with them.

Go lithium and navitas controller

Just bought some Duracell from Sam's.

Jury is still out.

I just bought Duracells from Sam's too. So far so good but won't know about longevity for a long time. They have good reviews online.

I just swapped #6 8 volt batteries for one lithium 48v 105 AH

I heard bad reviews about Sam's Duracell golf cart batteries.

I used to be an Interstate guy, but they've gone to heck in the last few years. Trojans and Continental are my "go-tos" now.

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I just swapped #6 8 volt batteries for one lithium 48v 105 AH

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How does this affect the handling? All those heavy batteries in the middle have to help keep it upright. Not like I am high speed cornering, but I don't need it tumping over. Might spill my beer. Mine are coming up on replacement soon.

I got tired of messing with water and corrosion so did research on converting my Polaris EV ( Got it for hunting hogs quietly) from wet cell to lithium. To use lithium's I had to change the controller and the charger. I instead went with the dry AGM's.
My uncle has a ranch in Nebraska and he has a Polaris EV also and converted it to Lithium. This winter he could not get his lithium's to charge up fully in the cold temps and he said they worked about only half as long as his old wet cells did in the cold of Nebraska.
Anybody else had experience in cold climates with lithium's?
I know the walleye pro fisherman in northern states are having the same issue with the lithium's they are putting in their walleye boats.

It's just a drawback of the chemistry and not much you can do about it. Our Tesla dropped about half its range when it got below freezing this year and 0-60 dropped quite a bit too.

Roger that. Thank you.

My cart refused to go in the cold snap just before Christmas (10 degrees or so), next weekend it was fine.

You had lithium's in it?
I took my Polaris EV that had the AGM dry batts in it up to our Ozark place at Christmas. We had two days of -10 and highs only to 3 or 4 degrees for 4 days. Wind chill was -25.
It did fine with them.
My uncle was really disappointed in his lithium's considering the cost.

Greeze06 said:

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Anyone have any insight into where to get some replacements at a good price?

Thanks in advance.

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I bought lithium from ExtremeTeam but they may have gone out of biz. Very happy with the product, though.

Correct, it has a roypow lithium. I have loved the maintenance free and quick charging aspect to lithium. I can live with it not going when it is that cold.

Yes sir. Thank you for responding.

The way I understand it, lithiums wont charge below freezing. Quality lithiums have built in protection to shut everything down. Lesser lithiums, without the protection, are actually damaged from it.

Yes. We equip lots our boats with them. All the marine lithium's have BMS circuitry in them and a device called heaters.
The bass boat and bay boat guys are having pretty good luck with them but the northern walleye tournament guys are marginal as they fish in much colder conditions consistently.....
even with the correct circuitry, is what feed back we are getting.
ETA... Mercury and Yamaha right now don't recommend using a lithium cranking battery for their engines.... even the ones with the BMS built in.

I went from eight 6v wet cell batteries to four 12v lithiums from Dakota lithium. I think they are 56ah. We don't need a huge range so they work for us.

I went from eight 6v wet cell batteries to four 12v lithiums from Dakota lithium. I think they are 56ah. We don't need a huge range so they work for us.

I have had Lithium Pros in my boats for over 12 years now. (Sold some of the boats with the lithiums in them.)

I have used the same 36v Lithium pro 40ah in 4 different boats now. It is in my duck boat now as I use it as a backup and to bass fish and scout etc. That boat also has a 12v lithium for cranking, GPS, pumps and lights etc.

My big main guide boat has one 36v 60ah Lithium Pros, one 12v Lithium Pros for the starting, one 12v Lithiums Pros for everything else. That system been in there 4 years or so with heavy constant use/abuse.

You don't have to go with either the old school batteries that require periodic topping off with water, or a lithium battery. As a third option you can get sealed, non-lithium batteries that do not require you to add water. That's what we got when we bought our golf cart last year.

No way am I going to have a vehicle with a lithium battery and park it in our attached garage. They are known to spontaneously catch fire. Not that often, granted, but any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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If you really believe this you should just get rid of anything electrical in your home. Or an ice vehicle in your garage. Everything has risk.

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You don't have to go with either the old school batteries that require periodic topping off with water, or a lithium battery. As a third option you can get sealed, non-lithium batteries that do not require you to add water. That's what we got when we bought our golf cart last year.

No way am I going to have a vehicle with a lithium battery and park it in our attached garage. They are known to spontaneously catch fire. Not that often, granted, but any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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Just an FYI each and every cell phone your family has has a lithium battery....and has for over a decade......and I'm guessing those are parked next to your head as you sleep.....and in your pocket all day heaven forbid!!!

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IslandAg76 said:

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I just swapped #6 8 volt batteries for one lithium 48v 105 AH

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How does this affect the handling? All those heavy batteries in the middle have to help keep it upright. Not like I am high speed cornering, but I don't need it tumping over. Might spill my beer. Mine are coming up on replacement soon.

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I would think that less weight, low on the cart would have some effect but while the lithium battery is lighter it is not light.
Haven't done much testing of it since the conversion but golf carts are inherently a little tippy

We went to lithium batteries in 2021. No maintenance and supposedly 200-250 lbs lighter. About 5mph faster?

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Buck Turgidson said:

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You don't have to go with either the old school batteries that require periodic topping off with water, or a lithium battery. As a third option you can get sealed, non-lithium batteries that do not require you to add water. That's what we got when we bought our golf cart last year.

No way am I going to have a vehicle with a lithium battery and park it in our attached garage. They are known to spontaneously catch fire. Not that often, granted, but any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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Just an FYI each and every cell phone your family has has a lithium battery....and has for over a decade......and I'm guessing those are parked next to your head as you sleep.....and in your pocket all day heaven forbid!!!

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There's an elevated risk specific to lithium golf cart batteries. In any case, there's a low hassle, low risk alternative (cheaper up-front cost too).

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Milwaukees Best Light said:

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IslandAg76 said:

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I just swapped #6 8 volt batteries for one lithium 48v 105 AH

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How does this affect the handling? All those heavy batteries in the middle have to help keep it upright. Not like I am high speed cornering, but I don't need it tumping over. Might spill my beer. Mine are coming up on replacement soon.

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I would think that less weight, low on the cart would have some effect but while the lithium battery is lighter it is not light.
Haven't done much testing of it since the conversion but golf carts are inherently a little tippy

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On DC motor golf carts it does make a difference. On my '14 model Yamaha Drive, I had installed the 48 V EcoBattery 105AH but hadn't yet installed the Navitas controller and AC motor conversion, the cart would get quite squirrely when braking, especially going down hill due to the change in center of gravity. This caused my 15 year old son to lay the cart over on its side even at quite a low speed, low enough speed that the cart has almost no scratch marks from the incident. With that said, I own 3 golf carts, and all 3 are converted to lithium. BigBattery.com are the best case/form factor and sell a kit that makes everything simple and straight forward to convert a golf cart. EcoBattery sells through local distributors and has a higher performance battery in the 48V 105AH size, so that is what I chose to put in the cart with upgraded motor & controller. If you have an EzGo cart, EcoBattery's kit is about as plug and play as you could get.

I can't recommend the lithium swap enough!

Buck Turgidson said:

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SGrem said:

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Buck Turgidson said:

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You don't have to go with either the old school batteries that require periodic topping off with water, or a lithium battery. As a third option you can get sealed, non-lithium batteries that do not require you to add water. That's what we got when we bought our golf cart last year.

No way am I going to have a vehicle with a lithium battery and park it in our attached garage. They are known to spontaneously catch fire. Not that often, granted, but any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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Just an FYI each and every cell phone your family has has a lithium battery....and has for over a decade......and I'm guessing those are parked next to your head as you sleep.....and in your pocket all day heaven forbid!!!

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There's an elevated risk specific to lithium golf cart batteries. In any case, there's a low hassle, low risk alternative (cheaper up-front cost too).

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This is only due to people taking financial shortcuts and trying to re-wire their old charger to charge lithium batteries. If you use a charger designed for lithium originally, the fire hazard issue is no higher than any other battery chemistry.

Buck Turgidson said:

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You don't have to go with either the old school batteries that require periodic topping off with water, or a lithium battery. As a third option you can get sealed, non-lithium batteries that do not require you to add water. That's what we got when we bought our golf cart last year.

No way am I going to have a vehicle with a lithium battery and park it in our attached garage. They are known to spontaneously catch fire. Not that often, granted, but any risk is intolerable when it could take down your house with your family asleep inside.

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This problem is solved with the new LiFePO4 chemistry.

Not as energy dense as some of the other lithium chemistries but it's still the best alternative for a golf cart assuming you aren't in freezing weather.

Will last longer than any other battery as well.