Batteries & Chargers

Batteries

It is important to make the correct decision when choosing a battery for use on a golf buggy. Making sure you have a good quality golf battery is critical to achieving optimum performance from your electric golf buggy. Whether you choose a sealed or wet battery, it must be deep cycle rated. We recommend that it be a sealed battery and at least 21 amp hour capacity. A lower capacity battery will work with some machines, but may not give a good long term life.
A reasonable expectation of life is approx. 200 rounds of golf depending on battery quality.
Some machines are capable of being used with wet batteries. Whilst these may suit some users, they do require regular maintenance and cleaning. Significant damage to buggies, motor vehicles and clothing will result if acid spills. Some clubs may not allow "wet cells" to be stored in their buggy sheds.
We stock a large range of high quality Gel and AGM technology golf batteries perfect for golf.
Battery Testing

In addition to servicing motorised golf buggies, we also have a golf battery and charger testing facility onsite. Should you experience any problems with your golf battery, we will be pleased to perform a load test to check the battery performance level. Our battery testing facilities will accurately determine the usable capacity of your battery.

Chargers

Only a fully automatic charger can be used with a sealed battery to ensure maximum life is obtained.  In addition, the charger should be Australian approved and also hold a C-tick number.  A number of unapproved chargers have been sold throughout Australia and the users are not aware of the hazards involved for using these chargers - the most serious of which is fire.

There are a number of "automatic' and "fully automatic" chargers in the market, which are unsuitable for use with sealed batteries.  A simple way of ensuring you are using the correct charger is to find out the charger type (make and model and check with us.

BATTERY WARRANTY IS VOIDED IF AN INCORRECT CHARGER TYPE IS USED.

Charging of wet batteries is less critical and a variety of relatively cheap chargers can be used.  Wet batteries require regular refilling of water lost during the charging process.