Electric golf cart batteries are like company employees. Take care of them well and they’ll give you a real good service. More than competent performance, they will render to you their utmost loyalty and longevity of committed service.
If you want this kind of efficient and enduring performance of the batteries you use for your golf cart rental business, then you must take good care of them as well as you provide care for your company employees. If people could respond well to kind treatment with excellent performance results, so could golf cart batteries to consistent proper maintenance.
Batteries maintenance for your golf carts, similar to garden care, begins with a good watering system. As living plants manifest radiant growth and vitality when watered regularly so will fully-charged batteries when regularly refilled with sufficient distilled water.
During peak seasons of you cart rental business, you would need to check and consequently re-water your batteries in no less than two weeks interval. You need to do this especially for golf carts that are rented out and used almost every day.
In cases of seldom used golf cart units, checking their batteries once a month would normally suffice. Pure distilled water must be used at all times without need to add acid solutions. You may use the drinking distilled water in that could be more economically purchased wholesale in supermarkets if you want to save a little on cost.
Ideal battery water level just barely submerges the plates and should be about a quarter of an inch below the brim of the battery opening. The remaining top margin provides the required adequate breathing space for the battery plates during charging time.
You may put in additional distilled water in cases of evaporation which could re-expose the plates during the charging period. You may need to do a more frequent checking of batteries during hot weathers and extreme uses of your rented golf cart as there could be more chances of water evaporation and batteries drying up during these adverse times.
While drying up is detrimental to your golf cart batteries, so does excessive battery water content. Overflowing battery water carries with it the acid content that causes corrosion on the golf cart metal parts like the chassis and the battery external parts. So take extra care at all times that battery water refilling are at the prescribed safe levels to avoid unnecessary and unwanted damages to your precious golf carts.
The profitability of your golf cart rental business highly depend on the efficient and enduring operation of your golf cart equipment the optimum performance of which is determined by an excellent golf cart batteries maintenance.
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