quick report on newer batteries and new heavier wires

[csport]

the cart ran GREAT!!!!!! we have a somewhat steep driveway, about 150 yards long its gravel road and usually even when the cart was newer, it would slow down- well guys, with your help not anymore- kept even speed up the drive ways and then down the road and then back up the real steep hill on the road

and there was no burning smell, that has been there the last couple years
I took a nice spin around the property without incidence.
Then Cindy took the cart out and she asked "is the cart faster?"
IT COULD BE our imagination?

thanks again

[JohnnieB]

Originally Posted by csport

the cart ran GREAT!!!!!! we have a somewhat steep driveway, about 150 yards long its gravel road and usually even when the cart was newer, it would slow down- well guys, with your help not anymore- kept even speed up the drive ways and then down the road and then back up the real steep hill on the road

and there was no burning smell, that has been there the last couple years
I took a nice spin around the property without incidence.
Then Cindy took the cart out and she asked "is the cart faster?"
IT COULD BE our imagination?

thanks again

Obviously, it is faster going up the driveway hill.

If it is a PDS cart with a stock PDS controller, it probable didn't gain any speed on level ground.
If it is a series cart and the cables were really bad, you might have.

Volts = Speed and if the cable were getting hot enough to smell, you were loosing some voltage across the hot cables instead of applying it to the motor.

Glad to hear it is running better.

[shaffer88]

Good to hear

[CROWN MAN]

My cart has decent speed on short trips but on longer trips to the beer store it seems to slow down a bit.
Would a larger gauge wire help this?

1998 EZGO 36v new batteries & cables. I think its a PDS ?? tow switch on top of controller cover.

[JohnnieB]

Originally Posted by CROWN MAN

My cart has decent speed on short trips but on longer trips to the beer store it seems to slow down a bit.
Would a larger gauge wire help this?

1998 EZGO 36v new batteries & cables. I think its a PDS ?? tow switch on top of controller cover.

PDS didn't come out until 2000, so you have a DCS.
If it has a metal body, it's probably a '98 Medalist DCS
If it has a plastic body, it's probably a '98 TXT DCS.

You mentioned new batteries and new cables.
What AH batteries, what gauge cables and were all 10 of them replaced?

Have you ever actually measured the speed to see if there is any difference?

[RitchCraft]

Originally Posted by CROWN MAN

My cart has decent speed on short trips but on longer trips to the beer store it seems to slow down a bit.
Would a larger gauge wire help this?

1998 EZGO 36v new batteries & cables. I think its a PDS ?? tow switch on top of controller cover.

It may just "seem" like it gets slower. I took my cart to my father in law's on Saturday which is a 6 mile trip. I had the wife follow me in the van because a mile of the trip is on road posted 55MPH. (I heard Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" in my head for that entire mile!)

Any how, I felt the same way, after a while the cart seemed to be slower, but the wife assured me I was traveling just shy of 20MPH the entire time.

I now have 20" tires on the cart and will make the trip again this weekend to see if the same holds true.

[DaveTM]

You probably could have saved yourself a lot of time by simply buying one of JohnnieB's aluminum helmut's!!! You could try to make one.....but it just isn't the same. JohnnieB sprinkle's his with a magic formula of old battery water mixed with secret stuff and then I've heard he sticks his tongue on battery post. (But what we are not sure of is...are the batteries charged.....or old dead ones???)

JohnnieB doesn't tell!!

[JohnnieB]