batteries

[yawood]

We all know how it is....the tradesman's house/car/whatever is never quite finished or as good as it should be because he/she is always too busy working on everyone else's house/car/whatever.

[TahoeDawgZ71]

Originally Posted by yawood

We all know how it is....the tradesman's house/car/whatever is never quite finished or as good as it should be because he/she is always too busy working on everyone else's house/car/whatever.

Exactly.

[scottyb]

Amen to that

[jim,s]

Well I got my cart back last night, As I said it was important to me to have my cart back for the christmas event.
I wanted the 12 volt to 6 8 volt conversion so I sent the cart out to have the mod done I wanted Trojan ranger 160 batteries.
After waiting a week and not being able to get the ranger batteries in a timely manor I was going to AGM batteries. but after getting a response from Scotty and David Hicks I changed the order and wound up with a new set of Trojan 875 batteries and the mod looks pretty good.
The cart was delivered last night and I put it on charge right away, In fact it's still on charge this morning.
My charger seems to be working ok with the new batteries it seems to be taking a long time tho. Is that normal?

I still need to hook up the lights, The battery company hooked the lights up to 8 volt where it was a 12 volt battery. Question do I just move the factory blue wire from the battery pack to the voltage reducer?

With the money saved from the batteries I may get a few more parts that I want. big controller, solenoid, set of 2 guage cables ect.

[NoleFan4Ever]

Originally Posted by jim,s

My charger seems to be working ok with the new batteries it seems to be taking a long time tho. Is that normal? Yes, that is perfectly normal and will take up to 16 hours before shutting off. It may do this the first several times as the batteries break in. It can take 10-20 charges and as much as 50 charges before they are completely broken in. As the break in time goes on, they will charge faster and be stronger.

I still need to hook up the lights, The battery company hooked the lights up to 8 volt where it was a 12 volt battery. Question do I just move the factory blue wire from the battery pack to the voltage reducer? Yes, if you have a 48 to 12v reducer, the lights need to be moved to it

See above....

[jim,s]

new batteries are settled in and have a full charge. I went on a 3 mile ride around the park and after the ride the batteries came back up to 50.3 volts
Its nice having the digital battery gauge from Scotty.

Now that I have a comfort level for the carts batteries I'm going to wait until after this little outing that my wife wants before I do anymore with the cart.

Just before the battery company delivered my cart I ask them to bring their best deep cycle 12 volt battery with a battery box. That is what I will use for all the christmas lights my wife wants.
i dont want anything to mess this up for her.