Why 6V 0r 12V Golf Cart or Industrial Batteries?


#1 They are more durable and longer cycling than 12V Group 24, 27 & 31 marine batteries. They are designed for the rigors and abuses of golf carts and were designd from the ground up as a deep cycling product, not "adapted" from automotive use.. They are simply more robustly built often with better separators and always with more lead and thicker plates. While thicker plates do not always make a battery deep cycle when talking 6V or 12V Golf Cart batteries, compared to typical 12V Group 24, 27 & 31 this is a truism.


#2 They have considerably longer cycle life than 12V flooded light-cycling batteries and even in the real world this tends to translate out to approx one third to double more the life of the average 12V flooded battery.


#3 You can fit more Ah's in a smaller foot print but they do require some additional height..


#4 Price wins! Ignore the West Marine pricing and shop other places. You'll see the cost per Ah and per cycle between 12V flooded batteries and GC2 6V or even GC12 golf cart batteries becomes even more apparent. The GC2 230Ah battery pictured at the top of this article can also be purchased as a Duracell EGC2 at about half the Sam's Club's in the US. This means $109.00 at Sam's vs. $199.99 at West Marine. The only difference between these two batteries is the sticker that East Penn installs at the factory.


Take a close look at the foot print of these two 6V GC2 batteries take up compared to two Group 24 deep cycle batteries. The only sacrifice you need to make, to get all the benefits of golf cart batteries, on your boat, is a little more height to fit the GC2's.