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11-18-2010, 05:49 PM | #1 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Webster Groves, MO
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just tried to work on 48 volt cart
I filled the batteries, when I left the country 2 weeks ago- I had it charged to about 53.8 volts- We just went to look and see what wire I am missing and it was 39 mvolts- 4 batteries are split at the seem on the same corners- they are june 09 batteries and it has not reached 32 here yet- any reasons?
would they laugh at me if I tried to say defect? or just plain my stupidity |
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11-18-2010, 08:26 PM | #2 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
Was the charger hooked up while you were gone?
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11-18-2010, 09:02 PM | #3 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Webster Groves, MO
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
No sir
I checked the charger on Saturday afternoon they were charged and I disconnected the charger I have been working late so I hadn't looked at it |
11-18-2010, 09:06 PM | #4 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Upstate, S.C.
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
wow, interesting. Got a pic ?
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11-18-2010, 10:41 PM | #5 |
Stay thirsty my friends!
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Location: Suburban Chicago
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
Any chance the cart was used by a teenager jumping curbs or ditches while you were gone?
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11-18-2010, 11:12 PM | #6 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Webster Groves, MO
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
This is a cart that has not run since I switched batteries- late last year- I filled the batteries two weeks aga and put it on the trailer
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11-18-2010, 11:20 PM | #7 |
Stay thirsty my friends!
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
Did these batteries sit uncharged over the last winter?
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11-18-2010, 11:31 PM | #8 |
Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Webster Groves, MO
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
when I checked them in the spring, they were in the 49.? 0r 51.? when checked in feb, I charged them, and then checked and charged again in April- a bout six week intervals- so Truthfully, I do not think so
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11-18-2010, 11:37 PM | #9 |
Stay thirsty my friends!
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Location: Suburban Chicago
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
This is just a theory, but I believe your new batteries may not have been "seasoned" before you put the cart up for that winter, and 4 of them froze and cracked their cases. Sparky cart owners need to educate themselves on the proper care of these batteries or major losses can occur.
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11-19-2010, 12:50 AM | #10 |
Happy Carting
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Location: Southern California
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Re: just tried to work on 48 volt cart
Batteries with a low specific gravity can freeze much easier than fully charged batteries. I suspect that since your batteries were never really broken in they never achieved a fully charge state and so they were more susceptible to freeze as the sat and lost voltage. Idle batteries will loose about 4% of their total charge per week.
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