[AT] OK, oddball question...

[Stephen Offiler]

Hi farmer:

Batteries in parallel will try to equalize each other.  Yours, of course,
are in series.  In a series string, if one battery is discharged, it will
limit the performance of the whole string.  It will not be recharged by the
other batteries however.  That's because you're trying to pull current from
the whole string, and recharge requires a push in the other direction.
Your idea to feed recharge to the center two batteries will work fine *IF*
you are very careful to isolate the whole thing from the golf cart
chassis. Otherwise you'll have some unintended arc welding going on.

SO




On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:45 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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