Golf Cart Maintenance

Magician16 · 10-30-2023, 08:22 AM

I'm a snowbird, and I made it down to Chandler, AZ last week just before the blizzard hit Bismarck. Everything was in good shape here, except I could not get the charger to work on my golf cart. It's a 2002 with 36V system. I charged each battery separately with a car charger and still wouldn't work. I tried to borrow a charger from neighbors, etc. but everyone has 48v carts. Finally I decided to see if I could troubleshoot the charger. Diodes good, fuse good, capacitor(couldn't get it to read until I disconnected the wires but tested good), jumped the relay, and there was 42v to the plug. I was baffled. Then a friend called and said he had a 36v charger.

I brought the borrowed charger home, plugged it in, and it turned right on. What a relief; I was about resigned to buying 6 new batteries.

While the cart was charging, I cleaned up the inside of my charger by blowing the dove's nest out of it, and I put it back together. Guess what, now it works. I guess when I cleaned it up and unplugged everything to check connections, it was just a bad connection somewhere.

I don't know how many times, I've taken electronic equipment apart and can't find anything wrong with it. Then it works fine after I put it back together.

bigdano711 · 10-30-2023, 09:19 AM

Dirty, corroded, oxidized connectors will be the end of all of us!

10-30-2023, 08:22 AM	#1
Magician16 Join Date: Aug 2019 Posts: 468	Golf Cart Maintenance I'm a snowbird, and I made it down to Chandler, AZ last week just before the blizzard hit Bismarck. Everything was in good shape here, except I could not get the charger to work on my golf cart. It's a 2002 with 36V system. I charged each battery separately with a car charger and still wouldn't work. I tried to borrow a charger from neighbors, etc. but everyone has 48v carts. Finally I decided to see if I could troubleshoot the charger. Diodes good, fuse good, capacitor(couldn't get it to read until I disconnected the wires but tested good), jumped the relay, and there was 42v to the plug. I was baffled. Then a friend called and said he had a 36v charger. I brought the borrowed charger home, plugged it in, and it turned right on. What a relief; I was about resigned to buying 6 new batteries. While the cart was charging, I cleaned up the inside of my charger by blowing the dove's nest out of it, and I put it back together. Guess what, now it works. I guess when I cleaned it up and unplugged everything to check connections, it was just a bad connection somewhere. I don't know how many times, I've taken electronic equipment apart and can't find anything wrong with it. Then it works fine after I put it back together. __________________ 2018 Bashan Storm(sold) 2016 Magician 250
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10-30-2023, 09:19 AM	#2
bigdano711 Join Date: Jun 2023 Location: Big Piney, WY Posts: 428	Dirty, corroded, oxidized connectors will be the end of all of us! __________________ 2023 Hawk 250 from XPRO off of Amazon MOUNTAIN MAN RC + MOTO on YouTube "If there were more bloody noses, there would be less wars." - Hagbard Celine "Someday, after mastering the waves, the winds, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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