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Originally Posted by meredith weekender
Take the batteries out of the golf cart and bring them home. Charge each battery individually with a regular battery charger and then store them in your garage or basement until spring. DO NOT ever store batteries on cement, you must at a minimum have a small piece of plywood between the batteries and the cement. Good Luck.
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Myth buster did a show on this... there is no problem with storing a battery on cemment... And if you don't believe mythbusters, believe me, I have been storing batteries on cemment for years... I have never had a problem once with this practice. The problem with batteries is that people let them sit all winter, and then in the spring after a prolonged time with out a charge, they are difficult to bring back to life. Most people like to try and blame it on sitting on a floor.... but the issue most time is that the battery gets fried... they try and quick charge them and this simply doesn't work, a long slow trickle charge using brings them back.... I have a battery that I keep as a back up for the boat. It gets charge 3 times a year... in the spring, summer and in the fall... It is ummm something like 10 years old at this point... It takes a long slow charge... but once it is brought back to shape, it starts the boat and will keep it going for weekends at a time... when I do something foolish like leave the stereo on for the week......
The other thing when bring back batteries that have sat for extended periods of time, is that you should remove the caps to the cells, make sure the electrolyte is at an appropriate level, and allow the battery to charge with the caps off.... this prevents gas build up in the cells, which can cause issue.