Motor HOT, motor or Controller issue?

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Originally Posted by cgtech

On a sepex cart, the field circuit does not touch the brushes (it better not, or bye bye Controller). And 1 ohm is not necessarily a bad field reading. Most ohm meters are not too accurate in the 1 ohm area and below. I would expect something around 1.5 ohm, but like I said about the typical inaccuracies in "low ohm" readings.

Actually, it turned out to be the the controller. It was immediately applying full battery voltage to the fields and the dropping down to zero volts when pressing the throttle.

Replaced controller, problem solved.