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Old 04-27-2008, 09:28 AM   #1
crittercreek
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Join Date: Apr 2008
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Default Watch out for this - New forward/reverse switch is bad!

I replaced a cooked F/R switch in a 2002 EZGO non-PDS cart and nothing worked. I previously had forward only. Thinking I had caused the problem myself during replacemant by transposing wires, I went over everything and metered individual leads to make sure I had them all down properly. After exhaustive troubleshooting using a lot of info from this site, I discovered that the new switch I had installed had a manufacturing defect, such that when it was operated the fixed and moveable contacts would not line up with each other and thus no juice would get to the motor.

To fix the problem, I had to simply loosen the moveable contact studs and rotate them 90 degrees so that they would line up when the switch was operated. I'm sure that if they made one switch this way, there are probably others out there sitting on a shelf somewhere.

Beware.
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