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Old 05-23-2020, 07:41 AM   #1
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Default How to tell ACCURATE battery level? *PICTURES*

So we recently got a 2001 Club Car DS, it has brand new Batteries (6 8Volt), less than a month old.

It has the analog gauge on the dashboard of the battery level but it seems like it's not accurate?

We drove for around 3 hours yesterday, never lost power or saw a decrease in speed. Then when we came home, I and immediately plugged it into the charger and it auto shut off around 2-3 hours. After the charger shut off, the battery gauge on the dash was saying about half or a little more, (See attached picture).

My question is why wouldn't it read all the way to the right (Green), instead of only reading halfway? Are these gauges normally inaccurate? Could it be broken?

Anyways what are my options for getting an accurate reading. I am not super Electrical savvy, but I do have a voltmeter.

If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
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Old 05-23-2020, 09:25 AM   #2
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Default Re: How to tell ACCURATE battery level? *PICTURES*

Those F/E meters are garbage! Remove it and install a real digital voltage meter in its place...
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Old 05-23-2020, 11:40 AM   #3
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Those F/E meters are garbage! Remove it and install a real digital voltage meter in its place...
Care to send me a link of what you'd recommend? Thanks for the info I figured it was trash.
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Old 05-23-2020, 01:04 PM   #4
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Default Re: How to tell ACCURATE battery level? *PICTURES*

From a site sponsor and a quality meter. https://www.cartsunlimited.net/battery-meters.html
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Old 05-30-2020, 09:55 AM   #5
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From a site sponsor and a quality meter. https://www.cartsunlimited.net/battery-meters.html
Thank you!!!
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Old 06-11-2020, 09:01 AM   #6
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Default Re: How to tell ACCURATE battery level? *PICTURES*

It looks like you can just connect the meter to the positive an negative of the battery back for most accurate readings. With this configuration, would the meter be "on" all the time?
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Yes it would, but that is an LED and has a very minimal draw.
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Old 06-13-2020, 07:01 AM   #8
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Thanks
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Old 06-13-2020, 09:48 AM   #9
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Though my cart comes with 3 soc indicator a colored graph, a percent of
digital soc and a digital volt meter..I had the ScottyB's cartsunlimited volt meter installed on my carts dash...

The ScottyB voltmeter is my reference standard in my cart's log keeping
track of my miles, start, stop, rest volts, amps out and amps in.

Hope this helps...
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Old 06-13-2020, 10:17 AM   #10
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.... My question is why wouldn't it read all the way to the right (Green), instead of only reading halfway? Are these gauges normally inaccurate? Could it be broken?

Anyways what are my options for getting an accurate reading. I am not super Electrical savvy, but I do have a voltmeter. ....
When you dash gauge is only reading halfway what is the pack voltage reading with your voltmeter?
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