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07-27-2018, 12:48 AM | #21 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
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07-27-2018, 07:33 AM | #22 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
Either way, I doubt highly we will see any lithium stuff here in my lifetime (thank goodness) because I bet replacement battery packs are super expensive (and I have come across junked hybrids in junkyards just because replacement batteries cost too much and they just bought a new Chevy) and electric cars are nonexistent around here (well, I did see one Tesla but it had a California plate)
People raise enough heck regarding the cost of new lead-acid batteries on an RXV and I bet lithium cells cost twice or three times that if not more. That and we simply lack the proper diagnostic equipment to work on them. |
07-27-2018, 08:15 AM | #23 |
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07-27-2018, 04:04 PM | #24 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
Maybe Klubber can jump in. His club has had a fleet of Lithium's since Feb 2017. Maybe he can let us know of any problems. I don't know whether it is change for changes sake, but I understand E-Z-GO has gone to 72 volts with AC motors on their Shuttles.
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07-27-2018, 08:12 PM | #25 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
Most of EZ's decisions lately seem like change for change's sake. the Powerwise QE, TEAM clutches, 13 HP engine that's a pain to service, and risky lithium batteries.
Meanwhile Club Car is doing the same thing they have been doing since the 1990s barring updates to IQ but otherwise the same old. I just don't understand why EZ has to change from what worked fine? Nothing wrong with the Robin twin, nothing wrong with the PowerWise ferro-resonant charger, nothing wrong with the TXT PDS.... |
07-27-2018, 08:41 PM | #26 | |
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07-28-2018, 01:46 PM | #27 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
I've done several searches using the phrase "Lifepo4 golf cart battery explosions" and have yet to come across one article concerning Lifepo4 batteries that have exploded or caught fire.
I did come across a poorly written article at http://www.golfcourseindustry.com/ar...for-golf-cars/ (Golf Course Industry) which has bad and non-comparable "facts" about the two battery types (Lifepo4 vs Lead Acid)......but NADA about any Lifepo4 explosions. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. |
07-28-2018, 04:07 PM | #28 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
No need to be afraid of fire with the Nissan Leaf module. See the link to a test Nick did at EV Battery Center a couple years ago. Turn volume down, kind of annoying and not needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz37WycW-7E They can swell up a lot, if overcharged. Understatement. Here is a pic of one that had a failure of the BMS to stop the overcharging of cells. Still read about 3.75V per cell. |
07-28-2018, 04:10 PM | #29 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
No need to be afraid of fire with the Nissan Leaf module. See the link to a test Nick did at EV Battery Center a couple years ago. Turn volume down, kind of annoying and not needed.
Nick's Quote: "This is a used battery from a Nissan Leaf 3.8V 33Ah, tested for how likely to catch fire when is destroyed or in flames. We had no success making it burn. The same battery after the burn test was charged/discharged twice at 1/3C - 10A - it has 30Ah capacity remaining. Before the test this cell was under salty water for 2 hours - you can see the contact are destroyed." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz37WycW-7E They can swell up a lot, if overcharged. Understatement. Here is a pic of one that had a failure of the BMS to stop the overcharging of cells. Still read about 3.75V per cell. Had a database error when aditing it. Double post. Last edited by PingEye3; 07-28-2018 at 04:12 PM.. Reason: Add Note |
07-30-2018, 08:12 PM | #30 |
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Re: Any experience with new EZ GO lithium carts?
Actually our area is like 10-15 years maximum behind schedule. Newest Club Car DS electric is 2011, newest Precedent is 2009, newest TXT is 2015 and newest RXV is 2009 (average, we are starting to see occasional Curtis variants here and there). Most of the repairs that roll in are very abused cars from the 70s to 90s most of the time, like EZ Marathons, Two Yamaha G1s and a Nordco Markateer already this year
We just started getting the SC-48s. Yamaha Drives use some flat looking charger branded Yamaha that has four-five LEDs (conveniently, the manual doesn't tell you what Error 1 and Error 2 mean) but so far we only took in two bad ones (didn't do jack when plugged in, suspected surge or hit by lightning) |
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