FREE Battery Testing

The M29 Automatic Battery Performance tester is designed to accurately verify the capacity of 12v Sealed Lead Acid batteries.  The tester contains a sophisticated micro controller and a nominal 8A Resistor Load (@12v) which work together to accurately test and measure battery performance.  Any battery from 10-120Ah can be tested.  At the end of each test a comprehensive test report is saved and results given to the customer as to whether the battery has passed or failed.

 Is your battery struggling over the final few holes? Why not let us test your battery for you?

We are currently offering FREE battery tests at The Golf Shop. The charge for a battery test is normally £9.99.  

We stock Maxi Power 18 hole batteries for Powakaddy, Motocaddy, Hill Billy and 36 hole batteries for Powakaddy and Motocaddy.

Deteriation of Battery Chargers

possibly the most common reason for premature cyclic battery failure is a failing or aging charger

There is a view that because a battery charger has no moving parts it can not possibly wear out. Sadly this is not the case! Just as other devices fail - for example a television gradually looses quality of sound and vision - so a battery chargers control circuits loose their quality of control. This will lead to incorrect charging and battery failure. in effect you may be undercharging your battery without knowing which can cause sulphated lead plates which is an irreversible condition

The Rate at which a charger ages, is affected by the conditions in which it has to work. if it is in a hot or damp, or very dusty location then it would deteriorate quicker than it would in a cool dry dust free position. these poorer conditions afftect the electrical components in different ways 

1.  Heat - This causes the silicon in the IC's (integrated circuits) and other components to gradually break down this leads to the control circuits losing control of the voltage and therefore the battery will be damaged
2. Moisture - this causes short circuits across the IC's and causes them to be inaccurate or to fail
3. Dust - This causes components to over heat and deteriorates quickly. Some types of dust are electrically conductive and cause short circuits with inevitable inaccuracy of the charger or burning of the circuit board which leads to failure
   The frequency of use that the charger is subject to will, also obviously affect the life of the charger. Golf batteries may be charged once or twice a week, or possibly five to six times a week

The more you use a charger the faster it ages. This is often not taken into consideration by people when they say the charger is "only three years old". A charger that is used every day for two years is getting old quickly and needs to be checked out throughly for charge voltage and cycle control. (Even though you may be getting the green light on your charger does not mean it is working effectively). As testing costs money it may be it may be more economic to replace it, Rather than have it checked

The Challenge for us as golf battery and golf charger vendors is convincing the customer that we are not just out to sell a new charger but that the benefits of better charging and also avoidance of ruined batters are worth that new investment. so in the case of battery chargers, education and understanding ensures longer battery life and allows us to provide a better quality of service and level of customer satisfaction

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