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08-26-2011, 10:57 AM | #11 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
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08-26-2011, 11:00 AM | #12 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
You know, I thought about that too. Only, I didn't think about it until after I mounted it inside the speaker tube and sealed everything up - duh! :) I'll just have to take it apart and look on the amp and see what it's rated for. It's just so small, I assumed something that small couldn't handle 15V for long.
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08-29-2011, 08:43 AM | #13 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
Update to my issue:
Based on the advice I got from here, I followed my head/tail lights harness back to the batteries and found this "fuse block" as the source of power to the head lights. The larger red cable is going directly to the positive on my "number 1" battery and the fuse block is getting 15V at each slot. So, I gave up on trying to find 12V and wired my amp into the available slot shown in the pic and my set up seems to be operating fine. My question is, is this thing just as simple as it appears to be - just a cheap fuse block that is getting power from the number one battery and dispersing it among the four available fuse slots; nothing more, nothing less? I would guess this is not the "proper" way to power the lights? |
08-30-2011, 03:14 PM | #14 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
Bump. ;)
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08-30-2011, 04:17 PM | #15 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
With no voltage reducer (48 to 12v), all power going thru the fuse block is coming from one battery which will result in that battery draining faster than the rest of the pack . . . in time, it will fail quicker than the rest . . .
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08-30-2011, 06:09 PM | #16 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
If your getting 15 volts it must be running off two batteries.
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08-30-2011, 06:34 PM | #17 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
Well, the way I see it, your NOT getting 15 volts out of one 8v battery. it has to be hooked up to two batteries, now you say you got 15 volts at the fuse block off of two 8v batteries, that means that you have a battery problem, or a dead pack, or some bad batteries, because you should be getting about 16 and a half volts to 17/18 volts at the fuse block, so you need to do some more checking, How old are these batteries???
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08-31-2011, 06:14 AM | #18 |
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Re: Finding 12V Somewhere on the cart
Oops . . my bad . . . 15v results from connecting fuse block to the second battery in the "pack chain" and should be actually reading about 17/18v at full charge . . . thanks jdc and rib33024 for catching that . . .
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