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Old 01-28-2014, 09:35 AM   #1
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charged the cart last night and got here this morning and the charger said full. jumped in the cart to pull it out and got about 50 feet and POW/BANG/SMOKE, blew all 6 batteries apart! Bad thing is i didnt have the body on the cart. good thing is i didnt get and acid on me or no plastic from the batteries
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Old 01-28-2014, 09:40 AM   #2
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wow......did you take any pictures?
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Old 01-28-2014, 09:42 AM   #3
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Wow, your day is off to a "peachy" start....
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Old 01-28-2014, 09:59 AM   #4
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Dang,that is a mess.YOU are very lucky sir.I believe I would go buy a lottery ticket if I were you.

I had 1 Interstate blow up on me.I had just put in a set of "rebuilt" batterys from the local interstate dealer in my old 86 3 wheeler.Thank God I put the seat on and sat down on it before I hit the throttle to do a quick go-no go test.BOOM! My head hit the roof and the top of 1 of the batterys was GONE
Well,The cart still worked so I drove it to the back yard hose pipe and cleaned it all real good.Took 2 months for them to honor thier warrenty on used batterys.

They tryed to tell me I wired the cart wrong.DUH,if the dang thing worked,AFTER the explosion how could it be wired wrong before?
What it amounts to is the post seperates from the plates inside where we cant see.Sometimes from that "tapping" we do to get bolts loose or wires over connections.A arc happens and the fumes built up inside the battery cause the boom.
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:09 AM   #5
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What made them blow? Ben using batteries for years never blew one up jim
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:17 AM   #6
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:18 AM   #7
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the battery distributor tried to tell me that one of the cables had to be loose. I know they werent because i just put brand new cables on them and i double checked them a couple times
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:21 AM   #8
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Whenever ALL the batteries blow up a water fill system is involved. All it takes if the presents of hydrogen gas ( usually present after a full charge) and a spark. Lucky nobody got hurt.
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:29 AM   #9
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Whenever ALL the batteries blow up a water fill system is involved. All it takes if the presents of hydrogen gas ( usually present after a full charge) and a spark. Lucky nobody got hurt.
The water fill system was my first thought when I saw the pictures. I would throw that thing away!! Just glad there were no injuries besides the wallet.
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Old 01-28-2014, 10:33 AM   #10
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The water fill system was my first thought when I saw the pictures. I would throw that thing away!! Just glad there were no injuries besides the wallet.
His wallet may be in the ICU

If I remember right these sale barn carts have been nothing but trouble.
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