chastho
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Some Sams Clubs sell Interstate GC-2 batteries, I bought mine at the Brownsville TX Sams club for $67 each.
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kendall69
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At the price of Sams / Costco batteries you can't go wrong. I bout two Sam's 6V and couldn't be happier.
Compared to what I was looking at with the AMG batteries at $300.0 ea. I could buy gaggle of Sam's batteries.
They have a great warranty.
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Rice
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I looked at Sam's Club batteries about a year ago and was surprised to see that they were rated at either 208 amp hours or 210 amp hours--some had stickers that said 208, some had stickers that said 210. Either way, it was noticeably less than the Interstates I was comparing them to.
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MartinDYN
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Costco 6V 220ah@20hr 100min@75amps $75 made by Johnson Controls
Trojan T105 6V 225ah@20hr 115min@75amps $125
Batteries + 6V 230ah@20hr 120min@75 $115 Dekka Mfg.
I don't know either.
All look good to me but Costco warranty is gone by 6 months and is prorated to that point.
I'm looking as I forgot to plug in after a trip and the refer fan ran the 12mo old Costcos down to 10.5V in a week and now they won't hold a charge for more than 5 minutes. (My bad)
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bill h
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MartinDYN wrote: I forgot to plug in after a trip and the refer fan ran the 12mo old Costcos down to 10.5V in a week and now they won't hold a charge for more than 5 minutes. (My bad)
Have you tried desulfating them?
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Hank MI
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Golden_HVAC wrote:...If you can store your RV at home, great, plug it in. Modern chargers are made to stay plugged in, and will make up for the 20 AH lost each day, while leaving it unplugged will discharge the batteries in about 2 weeks. THis will put a thick coat of battery sulfur on the plates, and that can harden, causing almost perminate damage to the battery plates...
With no load on the batteries there is absolutely no reason for a fully charged battery to discharge in 2 weeks, it should last for months. If you don't have battery disconnects to remove all loads, well that's a different story. If you do have a 'modern' converter/charger good, if not be careful about overcharging them.
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SS Slacker
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I am on my second summer so far with the Sam's Club Energizer 6V batteries and they are working very well. Prior to these I had the original Interstate batteries from 2003 and they were excellent batteries. I thought I would try these Enerzigers from Sam's based on price and so far I have been very happy.
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wa8yxm
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Branson in Tucson wrote:How do Sams Club Deep Cell batteries (house batteries) compare to other batteries be sides price.
The current batteries, I purchased at camping World.Howl
They were Inter-State brand and are going on 4 years old.
Old. Time to replace them.
Your interstates are only 4 years old and it's time to replace? Mine are six and going strong and I expect at least 2 more years out of them.
The batteries at Sam's, if and I stress IF I am not mistaken, are made by Johnson Controls. Guess who makes Interstate. (YUP same place)
Oh, I do suspect that at some Sam's clubs they may be selling batteries made by US-battery... And the same suspicion applies to some INterstate stores too.. It is a shipping and millage thing.
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spitfirepete
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Lots of folks use Sam's Club batteries in their golf carts where we live....I have 6 of then in my cart...going strong after two years.
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faucet1
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I recently replaced my 4 Interstate 6 volts with the Sams GC-2's. Had the GC-2 about two months now. When I make coffee with the inverter in the mornings while dry camping, there appears to be less voltage showing on the Management system than there was on the Interstates that I replaced. I have to run the genny each day to recharge the batteries same as I did previously, but it doesn't appear I have the reserve capacity that I was getting with the previous set of Interstates. Any ideas?
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