[AT] OK, oddball question...

[bradloomis at charter.net]

At my former work at the big wine factory (now at a smaller winery, just a lot bigger company, think brothers) we had 2 - 98 Clubs. One was always way faster than the other for whatever reason. During harvest they would run 24 hours a day. Yeah, they would have to have about a 6 hour recharge or just plug in when at the shop, but they actually got a lot of miles. I figured using the GPS off my motorcycle they averaged about 4-5 miles a day. It was a round trip of close to a mile to the waste water ponds and back, steep up hill grade for the return. We’d toss a 20HP motor in the back and go. Lots of running around on roughly a 30 acre facility. All that aside if your batteries aren’t shot I find it difficult to think that they wouldn’t last the day without any additional charge, unless you’re trying to run a heavy aux. load off of a pair. All we had were lights, horn, and LED strobe, so the deer wouldn’t hit us at 3am. 😊Turf tires kept at 30-35psi, mostly asphalt and concrete save for forays into the vineyards and pond runs. Now it’s a Gator. That thing is a beast!

Brad

 

From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Indiana Robinson
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2019 7:45 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] OK, oddball question...

 

One of my "old tractors" is IIRC about a 1996 Club Car 36 volt golf cart. With chevron tires (like tractor rears) they will get around well and will pull a lawn trailer about anywhere. I try to not over do it but I have in a pinch pulled one of my smaller tractors a very short distance or for a quick pull start.

It is as I said a 36 volt one using six 6 volt deep cycle batteries.

Now for the question... Hoping that some are better at theory etc. than I am. It's been a long hot day and my brain is in granny gear and I can't find what I want on-line. There are a number of golf cart accessories that operate on 12 volts like the back-up alarm, radio, lights, fan etc. You can pull 12 volts from any 2 adjoining batteries. I have read that you shouldn't draw too hard from any one pair or they will not always recharge evenly but apparently if those two do drop some power there is some balancing from the other batteries. Supposedly they try to find a common level with the weakest battery. (shrug)

What I want to know  is what would be happening if I were to connect a 12 volt alternator powered by a very small gasoline engine to feed 12 volts to the center 2 batteries? Would it move to the other batteries some?

Sometimes when we are working horse fences a lot we get might get a bit low on go juice when back in a back corner of the farm especially if running in deep snow. Not this week.  :-) 

I fed the question into my boiled brain and it came back "error 404, page not found"...  :-)

 

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Francis Robinson
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Central Indiana USA
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