Re: (ET) battery price questions

["Jim Coate" <lists freerangeelectric com>]

Batteries Plus, a small chain at least around here (Virginia) has been
selling rebadged East Penns also in the 90-something range as I recall.

Just make sure the new batteries have the same type of terminals as the
old batteries (ie round posts unless someone has altered the tractor
wiring), otherwise you'll also have to make new cables. Some like the East
Penns are now shipping with true dual terminals which is handy (versus the
goofy "low profile" thing Trojan used for a while which had so little of
the round post part as to be useless).


> Jim;
>  I bought 6 Energizer GC-2 a couple months ago at Sam's Club in 
> Davenport,
> IA. $80 with core and they didn't care what size the core was. I could
> have traded in a garden tractor battery. The core allowance was pretty
> much equal to the scrap value of the 63 lb batteries so I did trade a
> couple 12 v car batteries and saved the T-105s for scrapping.
>     $512 out the door.
>
> On Aug 25, 2012, at 1:00 PM, jim wrote:
>
>>  Has anyone purchased or priced batteries lately?  I can get the East
>> Penn/Deka batteries for $90 plus core,  lots cheaper than Trojan T105s,
>> and I can get them locally besides.  What has been people's experience
>> with these batteries compared to others?  I tried checking the archives
>> and Elec-Trak.com for battery info and didn't find the kind of
>> comparisons or info that I would like.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jim, in Western Wisconsin, enjoying an E15 with Alltrax.
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