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03-09-2019, 12:04 PM | #1 |
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2005 TXT slow up hill
I have 2005 EZGO TXT, it has 6 1 year old 6v batteries with an Altrax 400A controller. It is painfully slow up hill. What is the best way to increase my speed?
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03-09-2019, 12:21 PM | #2 |
Gone Mad
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
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03-09-2019, 12:51 PM | #3 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
It’s a series cart per the controller.
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03-09-2019, 12:58 PM | #4 |
Gone Mad
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
A series cart will always slow down some on hills. With one year old batteries, you are stuck with what you have until battery change time. Upgrading to 48 volts is the best thing you can do to a series cart, but it ain't cheap.
For now, you can upgrade the controller, solenoid, FNR, and cables, which will allow the motor to pull more amps while climbing the hills. If you buy the right ones, they will also work on 48 volts later on. I got everything in my sig from Carts Unlimited, a site sponsor. |
03-09-2019, 07:38 PM | #5 |
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
If you decide 48v might be an option, your controller is already capable of 48v, your motor will be fine on 48v too. Expect 33% more speed and torque if using the stock motor. So, that leaves batteries, charger, solenoid, F&R. Cables should be in the plan too, the stock cables are undersized, and won't reach the terminals of 8v batteries. Every single one of the bigger cables needs to be top notch, including the ones to the motor. The whole entire system is limited by the worst cable.
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03-10-2019, 09:13 AM | #6 |
Gone Mad
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
Oops, missed the Alltrax controller. Do you currently have it set for 400 amps? What size tires - not wheels - do you have?
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03-11-2019, 07:32 AM | #7 |
Gone Wild
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
As a fellow 36v owner, just get used to slow hill climbs until you upgrade to 48v or get a high torque motor. I have done everything you can to a 36v besides convert to 48v or upgrade motor as to increase my hill climbing experience, and I can say without a doubt that long hills are a 36v carts worst nightmare.
500A Alltrax, 400A solenoid, 2ga wires, less than 4 month old batteries, HD FNR and I will drop to about 6-7MPH on a long hill. |
03-11-2019, 08:47 AM | #8 | |
Gone Mad
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
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03-11-2019, 03:25 PM | #9 |
Getting Wild
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
I'm cringing as I read these kind of threads...cause I'm anticipating some harder hill climbs in an upcoming camping trip later this summer.
I'm hoping my cart doesn't embarrass itself...(2002 PDS 36v) I think it won't be so obvious on most of it, cause for example, coming back from the lake swim area..the hill is as steep as it gets..and we'll have at least 2 adults and pack of grandkids piled on...but with pedestrian traffic around, will need to keep speeds way down anyway...so might not even get beyond that 6mph. the run between the common family cabin and a mile down the road to our travel trailer in the actual campsite area...has a pretty beefy paved road hill...I'm hoping to be able to hold speed above 10-12mph at the most severe part of the climb...and that's not for a long piece of the road, so should be fine...anxious to see how it does. we have a long slow grade n the road in our neighborhood..with the original stock everything and a 23"s lift kit, the cart was slowing from it's downhill 22mph to down below 10mph as it made it's way up the road...(2 adults) after the Alltrax 48400, solenoid and 2ga wires thoughout, the cart holds 15mph in our neighborhood with the wife and I on it. most of our riding is on our own property offroad and through campground dirt roads..so speed is never an issue...but it's that upcoming campout where "commuting" between campsite and cabins/swim area...I expect it'll show what the cart is made of. |
03-11-2019, 03:45 PM | #10 |
Gone Mad
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Re: 2005 TXT slow up hill
PDS - SepEx - and series are two different beasts.
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