Fuse Problem G1

[Thomas Gatewood]

My G1 keeps blowing the fuse on the upper wheel well. I have had the cart a long time and never had this problem until recently. When I replace the fuse it will run for a while then blow it. Also looks like the manual says 10amp but when it blew the first one there was a 30amp?

[sho305]

Should be 10A. Make sure if you have any accessories like headlights/etc they are wired with a ground to the battery, and that ground is good. The cart only has wiring for starter and ignition and if you add to that it blows fuses. The frame is not ground and will blow fuses. Check any ground wires for anything, if they have bad connection, you guessed it, it blows fuses. Its more likely something is not grounding and causing this than anything else unless you have bare wires or something. Some carts have a 10A on positive and another on negative. Some have a block, some have them in rubber things in the wires. The engine is grounded for the ignition, but the rest of the cart is not it will all go through that one wire and blow it.

[Thomas Gatewood]

The wire ran from the front on off switch to the back lights. I tied into the back lights and ran a wire to the battery ground. It is still blowing the fuse. Would this work as far as grounding? If so are there other things to try or replace?

Thanks!

[sho305]

I am not sure what you are saying, but you can't run stuff off the stock wiring unless you use a relay. You might get away with it, but not recommended. Your power and ground for any accessory should come from the battery. You can run a relay on the key to turn on/off the power to your stuff because a relay takes very little power, if you need to have the key turn things on/off. You should not wire anything to the key or any stock wiring. They allot 10A to the entire cart for stock wiring to run the ignition system and starting system and its usually not enough to run anything on top of it.

If you are not running stuff off the stock wiring then you have a short or something is wired wrong. Maybe start disconnecting things until it does not short.