charger swap

cuerno

My cart is a TXT D501 EZ-Go it has a 36 volt charger that went bad and my question is this, I have a charger 2010 Power Drive made by Lester Electrical that I used on a Club Car 48 volts. If I remove the EZ receptacle cable from the bad charger and place it into the
club car Lester charger, can I then use it on my EZ-GO cart? The Lester has a OUTPUT: 48 VDC, 17 Amps.

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cgtech

Nope, not gonna work. The club car charger is just a "dumb power supply box" that takes all it's instructions from the club car. The Ezgo charger makes it's own decisions about when to start up/shut down ect. Besides, how does using a 48v charger to charge 36v batteries seem like a good idea?

cuerno

i was thinking of placing a jumper wire at the relay to keep the charger on and placing a timer box at the electric outlet to control run time. the ez-go puts out 16 amps the club car puts out 17 amps. I guess i will see if i can trade the 48 volt for a 36 volt.

cgtech

The voltage difference would be the biggest problem, besides controlling the charge cycle. Trading it for a 36v charger (that you might have to swap plugs on) is a much better idea. All the 36v chargers control their own charge cycle, when working properly, so swapping plugs on a 36v charger is ok. On chargers, White wire is DC positive, black wire is negative, unlike how you might think of house wiring.

cuerno

thanks for your time to give me a reply, heading to a couple of used golf cart shops today here in San Antonio maybe i'll luck out and find a use charger and let them have the club car charger which I have no use for it. the batteries are a year old, I have charge the batteries with my 12 volt car charger, two batteries at a time and it runs like it did when it was brand new.