From: "Sean H. Breheny" <shb7@CORNELL.EDU>
> It very well may be that it would be acceptable to just use three 12V lead
> acid batteries in series with some additional resistor and then recharge
> them as needed. In fact, for cost reasons, I'm leaning toward this. The
> down side is that we would still need to find chargers that could either
> keep all 12 batteries topped off or recharge them in a reasonable amount
of
> time. I don't know if there are high current lead acid chargers out there
> designed to handle three batteries in series.

Our John Deer golf cart  come rapid response tech vehicle uses a 48v battery
set charged off the mains.
You may be able to lay your hands on a battery charger for a golf cart /
electric forklift which are designed with charging lead acid batteries
quickly.


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