Club Car Not Charging after recent changes

Indyirishfan

I recently added a plum quick motor, HD f/r switch and 2 guage wiring. Now when I plug the charger in, it will kick on and then shut off after a few minutes. When I plug it in it jumps up to around 19 amps and then when it shuts off the battery light comes on on the cart. The light will come on for a bout five seconds then go off and does this repeatedly. I went through the procedure to reset the OBC, skipping the tow run switch step because I have a series cart. Any thoughts on what problem this could be?

BGW

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tratt

Did you run you negative wire from battery 4 through the obc?

Indyirishfan

[QUOTE=tratt;761198]Did you run you negative wire from battery 4 through the obc?[/QUOT

Oops. Any ideas on how to get that two guage wire throught there?

tratt

There is a kit you can order but I made one from a piece of 5/16 stainless threaded rod, a couple of rubber washers and four stainless nuts. Just dont tighten down too much onto OBC.

Indyirishfan

I guess I am a little confused. When I took the old cables out, the negative wire ran from the last battery from the positive side through a slot in the OBC. It wasn't connected to anything on the OBC it was just fed through there. If it can get the new negative wire back through there is that all I need to do. The way it was fed through there it didn't look like it did anything except hold the wire in place.

tratt

No, that is an ammeter similar to the handheld clamp on meters you can buy for testing. It measures the amps being used by the cart between charges and computes the proper recharge for it. I have read on other forum that some have had success drilling the plastic housing out to a larger diameter but I wouldn't advise that. If you nick the copper coil that is encased in there it will not function. What I did was use the threaded rod to pass through the OBC and connected to that on each side with lugs and nuts. I used fender washers and rubber washers to pad the plastic housing from the lugs and nuts .

shadowman

talk to scotty i think he has a kit but your wire has to go thur OBC theres a sensor so to speak in there and then it bolts to B- on controller..........or you can get the 6 gage wire run it thur and hook it up with the new 2 gage but your better off the other way..............................................8 )

erict

Here is Scotty's kit.

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Indyirishfan

I was able to cut the lug off and feed the wire through and reconnect with a new lug. It seems to be working now. Thanks for the help.

TahoeDawgZ71

This is wrong. It should hook up to the negative post of the last battery.