[Chester B. Stone, Jr.]

I have used 6 volt house batteries in an RV before with excellent success. First of all, most 8D batteries are not deep cycle and should not be expected to perform as well for boondocking as 6v in series. I have 6 big 8Ds in my coach and as soon as they show any sign of weakening, I am going to replace them with 12 golf cart batteries which fit into the same space. If I do much boondocking this summer, I may replace them sooner. There are central watering systems, which I have used, that have been designed to make it easy to fill all golf cart batteries at one time. I have not found a similar watering system for 8Ds. In my opinion, there is a no question that 12 6-volt deep cycle golf cart batteries will perform far superior when compared to the cheap 8D starter batteries. I think 12 golf cart batteries should be cheaper than 6 deep cycle 8D. It seems strange to me that Newell uses starting batteries for the house rather than deep cycle.