Although I may not use exactly the right words to please everyone, I am going to continue, for the greater good, that being that someone may be having the same problems we are, or they will, and they may use a search engine to try to find the answer, like I did, and it may lead them here.
Let me take a breath!
EZGo did come by today, to switch out the solenoids in our
entire fleet. I did my best to get the technical explanation some seem to need, and it goes like this.
Why, yes, the magnetic auto-brake is run by electricity, and when the solenoid fails the electricity stops. Period. (That was said to me in the tone of
what could be more obvious than that?)
Unexpectedly, I got the additional explanation of
when you buy parts from a crappy supplier without checking out their claims, you get crappy parts. What we're putting on now is the good stuff.
Hopefully I will have nothing further to report than
it worked.