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Old 07-15-2021, 08:25 AM   #1
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Default Trojan Watering System

When I bought my new i40 3 months ago I had the dealer install the Trojan HydroLink system on my batteries. It has a little dot window indicator on each battery top. If the window is white, it’s time to add distilled water. If it black, it is full.

None of mine have been white. I only put a few miles on the cart each day and I always charge it after each use no matter how short the trip is. Should I wait to see white on the indicator or should I just try adding water? For those of you with this system how often are you adding water?
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Old 07-15-2021, 08:32 AM   #2
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Read this....those are good for a year or so before problems;

https://www.buggiesgonewild.com/showthread.php?t=171951
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Old 07-15-2021, 09:52 AM   #3
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Default Re: Trojan Watering System

You are going to find that most of us on this forum are going to tell you the same thing...Take it off and throw it in the trash...they are not reliable and have the potential to cause your batteries to explode in a chain event...just my opinion but seems to be a common one when these watering systems are discussed...
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Old 07-15-2021, 12:11 PM   #4
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Default Re: Trojan Watering System

Agree. Those systems are important to fleet owners (golf courses). Can you imagine the labor involved in checking 50 carts X 24 cells in each. 1200 cells individually served. The fleet owners know a certain percentage of these systems will fail but cost is less than the labor cost to service each battery individually. For an individual owner the risk/reward ratio is not good IMO.
Golf cart dealers like to add these systems for more profit.
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Old 07-16-2021, 11:14 AM   #5
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I'm lazy so I got the watering kit, but I have US batteries in mine and bought flow-rite system. So far so good after a few weeks, I didn't buy the indicator we don't do heavy driving so figuring about 1x/month I'll just pump them up and should work fine. Also, my dealer was charging around $600+ for the watering system, you can buy online for about 200-250 and install without any tools in about 10-15 minutes so I would buy your own and not go through the dealer.
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Old 07-16-2021, 02:58 PM   #6
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I would stay away from them.....bombs waiting to go off....would not let my wife or kids ride on top of it. IMHO
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I'm lazy so I got the watering kit, but I have US batteries in mine and bought flow-rite system. So far so good after a few weeks, I didn't buy the indicator we don't do heavy driving so figuring about 1x/month I'll just pump them up and should work fine. Also, my dealer was charging around $600+ for the watering system, you can buy online for about 200-250 and install without any tools in about 10-15 minutes so I would buy your own and not go through the dealer.
I got this flow-rite too and had no issues with it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Z6RNXY8/

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I would stay away from them.....bombs waiting to go off....would not let my wife or kids ride on top of it. IMHO
What why?!?! How do watering systems make the batteries into bombs?
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Old 07-21-2021, 02:07 PM   #8
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As you can tell, I don't like them :)

Here's a thread:
https://www.buggiesgonewild.com/showthread.php?t=171951
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