Sick and tired of battling batteries!!

[Anniedog]

For more than 10 years I've been fighting with the ^&^$%% battery compartments on Airstreams. Did it again over weekend. Has anybody switch to 6-v batts and found it easier to get them IN and OUT of those absurdly small compartments?? I've never SEEN a golf cart battery so I have a lot to learn about this subject!
But I'd like to get my hands around the throat of the imbecile who designed the battery compartments on A'Screams!!! Ha!

[overlander63]

Golf cart batteries are even taller than the ones typically found in the battery compartments.
If you do zero boondocking, or using the battery a lot when not hooked up to shore power, you can get a group 34 battery to put in your coach. It is the same footprint as the one usually found in the compartment (like a group 24), but is almost an inch shorter in height. They are not available in deep cycle, though. Our Sovereign came with a 34 in the battery compartment because the PO got tired of hassling with the 24's.

[Minno]

Golf Cart batteries are typically a bit taller than a 12 volt deep cycle battery. There is no way I could ever fit even one of them into the small battery compartment on our trailer. We plan on installing them on the tongue behind the propane tanks, and I'll need to build a special box for them.

Chris

[ALANSD]

I use an OPTIMA yellow top battery with a blade disconnect switch. The battery only gets charged when the blade is down. I use a small condition meter attached to it to read the charge state, and the battery is always ready to go, no issues with it dying.
With an Optima if you screw up and forget to charge it , the battery wills till come back to full charge from below 10v, which usually kills a "normal" battery.

[Lumatic]

AGM batteries are maintainance free and you can intall them in any position. But you should have a 3 phase converter that is compatable with the battery.