Buggies Gone Wild Golf Cart Forum - View Single Post - Attempting to recondition Trojan batteries

Fairtax4me · 03-01-2020, 09:14 PM

If you wanna know if the motor works, just test the motor with a 12v battery.

You want to see if the cart will operate, you can try charging those batteries with a 12v charger to see if they will come up enough to turn the cart charger on. But doing anything with the liquid inside them is not worth the time or hassle. If they're truly dead, nothing will restore them to usable service. Just because the pack gets back up to 48v doesn't mean you'll ever get more than 10 minutes of run time from them. If you just want to test the cart to see if it will drive, then charge them. But if you intend to actually use the cart by new batteries for it.
If you're gonna sell it, then sell it not running, or buy new batteries for it and get it running.

03-01-2020, 09:14 PM	#3
Fairtax4me Bonafide Nincompoop Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Charlottesburg Va Posts: 8,987	Re: Attempting to recondition Trojan batteries If you wanna know if the motor works, just test the motor with a 12v battery. You want to see if the cart will operate, you can try charging those batteries with a 12v charger to see if they will come up enough to turn the cart charger on. But doing anything with the liquid inside them is not worth the time or hassle. If they're truly dead, nothing will restore them to usable service. Just because the pack gets back up to 48v doesn't mean you'll ever get more than 10 minutes of run time from them. If you just want to test the cart to see if it will drive, then charge them. But if you intend to actually use the cart by new batteries for it. If you're gonna sell it, then sell it not running, or buy new batteries for it and get it running.