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<blockquote data-quote="Rmc" data-source="post: 1699867" data-attributes="member: 39072"><p>Lawn tractor batteries are a bad idea to use on a electric fence. They are designed as a starting battery .starting batteries and deep cycle batteries are designed and built different and function differently.starting batteries are designed for short duration high amp use. Deep cycle batteries are designed for low amp use over long periods of time.using starting batteries for deep cycle use will result in premature failure. They do make smaller deep cycle batteries for electric fence use such as a ub1270.</p><p>Another thing to be carefull of is not to let your batteries get to low before you recharge them The newer automotive style battery chargers now have a built in safety(idiot) switch so if you hook them up backwards or if they are too discharged the charger will not kick on to charge them. </p><p>One work around is to conect the discharged battery to a fully charged battery via jumper cables. then attach the charger to the charged battery .the fully charged battery will have enough volts and amps to allow the charger to begin to charge many deepcycle batteries are changed out prematurely because the have been discharged to the point tnat they dont have enough volts or amps to allow the battery chargers to kick on and charge them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rmc, post: 1699867, member: 39072"] Lawn tractor batteries are a bad idea to use on a electric fence. They are designed as a starting battery .starting batteries and deep cycle batteries are designed and built different and function differently.starting batteries are designed for short duration high amp use. Deep cycle batteries are designed for low amp use over long periods of time.using starting batteries for deep cycle use will result in premature failure. They do make smaller deep cycle batteries for electric fence use such as a ub1270. Another thing to be carefull of is not to let your batteries get to low before you recharge them The newer automotive style battery chargers now have a built in safety(idiot) switch so if you hook them up backwards or if they are too discharged the charger will not kick on to charge them. One work around is to conect the discharged battery to a fully charged battery via jumper cables. then attach the charger to the charged battery .the fully charged battery will have enough volts and amps to allow the charger to begin to charge many deepcycle batteries are changed out prematurely because the have been discharged to the point tnat they dont have enough volts or amps to allow the battery chargers to kick on and charge them. [/QUOTE]
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