How to Charge your Golf Cart Batteries Manually if your charger will not turn on
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- I get a lot of calls about battery chargers that are not working after the owner has been out of town for a while. Here is the solution to charging your batteries up after they have dropped too low for the charger to recognize them.
Most of the time people assume the Charger has stopped working, but that is likely not the case. It is more common that the batteries have dropped too low in voltage and the charger needs a certain voltage to turn on.
A lot of modern chargers are too "smart" to do this. They will tell you that your batteries are bad, or give you a fault light of some sort and wont charge the batteries. You may have better luck with a simple adjustable charger like this one here to charge and de-sulfate your batteries.
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Always remember, the battery cable in between two batteries are hooked up to make 16 volts. They're hooked up positive to negative, now you are going to connect the battery charger to the 2 remaining battery posts according to their polarity. Red to positive, and black to negative. The charger will produce a little over 15 volts to the 16 volts combined of the batteries. Mine where stone dead, it took over 3 hours per sets of batteries. Which meant charging 3 separate times. Works great. Great video.
I watched your video & I would love to say thank you. Your video saved my job from buying 8 new batteries.
I had no idea how to fix problems & I was the hero of the day but I owe it to you so thank you
Your cure worked like a charm. Thought I would be replacing my charger or invoking the warranty on my batteries. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
If you want to save 3 hours, follow this man's video, exactly, and do two batteries at once. I have a 48 volt system (4 fluid caps x 2 = 8, x 6 batteries = 48 volts. My charger began working after the 3rd sequence of charging two batteries at once and you do not have to take the nuts off the posts to charge and then replace them again. The first round of charging I did one battery at a time and he's right, the battery and charger cables can get pretty hot. What a nice outcome to a real conundrum. I'm really grateful for the video. Thanks!
I was going to take it to the repair shop, but I’m going to try your way first! Thanks!
How awesome is that?! This is my exact problem and your using the same charger I have lol. Thanks for the vid
Bro, thank you so much for this video! You just saved me a lot of time and money.
Thank you for making that very simple and showing the illustration and getting to the point.... I cannot tell you how many times I get on video to get help and the guy wants a talk for 45 minutes and that does not help anybody out thank you you like that out perfectly
Worked like a charm!!!! Thank you!!!
Saved me hassle and money. Subbed.
Thanks a million for your video. I just charged my 48 volt system until the charger cut off after about an hour and the indicator is still flashing low. So tomorrow, I am going to follow your instructions and see how it goes.
Thank you very much
Thanks for this video!!! Worked exactly how it was explained!!
Worked great! Thank you so much. 👍
You are an absolute legend. Thank you!
video was great saved me a service call to dealer thank you !!!
I tried each individual battery, but it didn't work.i was going to take it to shop next day. Then I saw this and tried it, and BAM!! THANK YOU!! The guy at shop said he would charge my batteries and said it could be computer board or something. I just knew he was going to take me to cleaners.
Thank you. This may have helped a friend who was planning to replace the batteries in a scooter that he bought, put on the charger but wouldn't change. It had been idle for a long time. Also, I appreciate your tee shirt.
I hope it works out for your friend. I don’t know much about scooters but I would imagine the batteries would be the same.
Thanks, that shirt was from a conference and I have worn it out since then, lol. Too many holes from working on carts and batteries I suppose.
Excellent video, I learned a lot.
Thanks for the informative video. I was able to get the stock charger to work after charging just 2 of the 6 batteries individually. Do you think that once the stock charger completes it's cycle that it will have charged all 6 batteries fully? The batteries are only 1 year old. Thanks.
Great video, you answered my questions. Thanks
Very Good Thank You! All work again!
You saved me a trip to the shop. Thank you!
Well explained. Thanks!
Great video. Good information too!
My cart ms battery condition is just flashing up one then down one and doesn’t look like it’s actually charging, any clue? I have an ClubCar thanks
Works like a charm, thanks
realy good, worked for me, thanks
are you able to charge all the batteries in series, as in hooking onto the positive on the first battery and the negative on the last set? using 12v charger on 6 8v batteries...
awesome info, thanks
I like the idea of the battery maintaner but what if the water level was to get low will it burn a battery up or just stop charging
Thank you. How can we contact you to purchase the specialized battery charger you referred to in the video?
Thanks good information
on the far side do i connect to the sides that are furthest away or closest to the middle batteries?
Where can we get the long term charger you sell we have a 36 volt and had this problem last winter our charger shuts off just like you said and never restarts
If I disable the OBC or On Board Computer
on my 2006 Club Car Precedent, can I use a
LINKS Series charger EPS by Lester Electric
to charge my cart?
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What kind of battery charger maintainer do you have for a 48 volt club car
Nice shirt! 💥
I have 4 12 volt batteries, in the past I have been told that I can disconnect the last negative terminal to keep all 4 batteries from draining over the winter. Is this true or good advice?
I like your shirt!
This might be a stupid question but I am gonna ask. If the battery is charged but you don't know how charged it is and we plug it into the charger but nothing happens at all on the charger, could it be because the battery is fully charged?
Thanks!
So I connected the 12v to the two different batteries. They are reading 100% charge. Could it be my regular cart charger is bad?
Will using a 12v charger on 12v batteries 30min at a time blow my navitas controller? Also - when 12v charger & 12v Batteries do I still skip one in series?
I have 3 - 12v batteries that I swapped from 6x6v.
it only charges half way. how can I get full charge
Can you use the charger for automobile electric cars
Just put new batterys in my 48vt club car . Charger wont come on. Any ideas?
I have a red light blinking twice..I k my charger is bad ...which one d u recommend? It’s an ez go 48 13 amp...Txs its a good video
Red Light Blinking twice should be a battery voltage error. But, if you are sure it is bad the charger here - amzn.to/2EntOlC is one we have had very good results from. Also the Lester summit II is supposed to be really good, but I've never used that one.
Nice video. My 48V cart died and tried this with a 4amp 12V manual charger. 30min each batter (4x 12V). And nothing happened. Need more amps? Charge longer? I’m tempted to leave them on for a while but worried about over charging. Thanks.
If they're REALLY dead you'll want more than 30mins each. A 4amp charger will take 50 hours to charge a 200ah battery for example. So it'll take a whole lot more time to get enough juice in the batteries for the charger to detect the voltage.
Our cart won't move forward. A friend told me he thinks the "accelerator pot" is bad. Any advice?
can someone do a diagram on a ez-go golf txt cart wiring "gas"
My Yamaha electric cart battery charger problem. When I connect the charger to the power outlet and without connecting it the golf cart, the three lights blink for a second every 7 seconds. When I connect the battery charger to the golf cart it keeps doing the same. it is not charging the golf cart
the charger is YAMAHA, 48 volt charger, multi-stage battery charger/ maintainer. MIDEL JW9-82107-02
ANY thoughts are greatly appreciated
😊thanks
I was so irritated that I was like I don’t know I haven’t hooked up right why is not working mind you I did put the distilled water and I filled it back up but you’re the first video I watched and it made a lot of sense. I do have a question for everyone though I hate having an on off switch. I just bought a brand new one. Do I need to have an on off switch for it to charge? The reason I ask is because I am have stripped off all the wires of, and I’m redoing like the lights to turn on lights and brake lights at all of the all of the cables him so I’m just wondering thank you everyone. So to be clear, let’s say you put all the batteries in and you haven’t hooked up right what is the least? I need to have hooked up in order for me to start charging it.
the battery not fully chareged, The power supply cutoff too fast. How to correct the problem?
I like your t-shirt. I appreciate you being bold in your faith.
How do i find out if my motor is good or not before i spend all that money on batteries? thanks
Thanks that's why the charger isn't turning on lol thank you so much
Shouldn't you take the cables off so your charger won't try to push through all the batteries?
Hmmm.... question> I have a 36 volt system. The charger has a timer that doesn't work(im assuming its a dial timer). The timer does not move when charging. The charger shows 12 amps while its charging. How long should i leave this charger plugged in and charging the batteries?
The amps will go down as tge battery charges..when anos get under 5, take it off
You may so bypass your charger, bypass your obc and regulate the charge by installing a timer on the ac power oule3
if i have two chargers, can i charge two sets of batteries at a time? to save time?
Todd White shirt for the win!!
What is low on a regular 8volt battery?? Mines go from 8.6 to 8.40 They not even...
36v charger on 16v(2 batteries) for 30 mins? Just wanna make sure I have heard you correctly. Ty
I have 48 V batteries with the E.R.I.C charger. Should I leave this charger plugged in when leaving for 6months or should I set a timer
for half hour per day or so ?
I have same charger Club Car states leave the cart plugged in all the time the charger is Automatic and will maintain the charge .
You don't mention if the tow switch has to be disconnected or turned off. Also, I thought each battery had to be charged individually. Two at a time?
Do you use 12 volt 2 amp or 12 volt 6 amp? Thank you for this video
This video is from several years ago, but I think the charger I used had a 20 amp setting. I had to do this a lot back then and I always used the higher setting so I didn’t have to wait long to switch it to the next set.
Our electric golf cart is having trouble. We are not sure exactly what's wrong, if it's the charger or batteries. When we plug in the charger, the lights appear to show it is charging; however, we will wait roughly 5 hours to check our golf cart and when we turn it on, the meter showing how much charge is left shows no increase in charge. Do you think you could possibly help???
Edit: We found that there was a wire that happened to be fried to the battery. We unstuck the wire and covered it in electrical tape to keep the current inside the insulator. Now however, our golf cart charges and everything works except for the headlights..... Any idea why that is???
If the batteries are newer (like a couple years old) are they more likely to come back using that charging method?
Yes. It worked for me yesterday
I brought back a 36V system
My power drive charger clicks on and buzzes but the needle dosnt show any amperage and it dosnt charge
Usually that is a problem in the charger. There are a couple of thing that could cause it. If I Come across a charger that's having the same issue I'll try to make a video for it!
Well the shop said it was the computer on the cart. And supposedly fixed it. But after paying the bill they couldn't even find the cart.
I did the first two this way and when i put them on the next 2 beside each other and burnt up my car chargers ...ugh
Wouldnt the voltage of the charger be less than 2 batteries in series? I would think this would be a bad idea if the batteries had some charge in them. Maybe OK if the batteries are stone dead.
Change voltage is about 14-15 volt from a 12 volt charger. Two 8 volt batteries =16 volt. Doing this to each bank of two batteries will get the over all voltage of the 48 volt pack up high enough for the automatic 48 volt battery charger to turn it self on. If it doesn't detect a minimum amount of voltage coming from the batteries it won't send charging voltage.
Omg!! Saved me $2100
Will this technique work with 12volt system? My cart uses 6 12volt batteries.
Sorry for the slow response. Absolutely! You just charge one battery at a time on that set up.
I have a 48 volt volt cart. How low is too low for the charger not to kick on?
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why you cant just take this charger an hook it up just like the charger is hooked up with this function would charge the whole system if you hooked it up like that..I use to charge my 18 wheeler like that when batterys drained to low crank the truck just hit the booster an it would start right up
So I tried this and the second set I plugged it on burnt my charger up cause it needs to have the batteries separated first so u may want to tell people that warning! Make sure it's in series cause u can't just go with the way they r set in. Thank u for this but lesson learned the hard way😊 😔
I have done this hundreds of times and never had to separate the batteries, but my charger was an older very simple charger. There isn’t much to get burned up on the old style chargers. It is possible that the circuits on the newer chargers may be more sensitive. Who knows? I am sorry to hear your charger failed when trying this method.
Found that my charger kicks off if I'm not charging at the same voltage as the charger setting. Other solutions recommended 12v-> 8v for 30 min's each, then plug in 48v charger. Didn't work. Tried 6v->8v, no go. Bought another charger, same thing, (returned it). Bought a more expensive charger which includes an 8v setting. Tried one at the time and still get a "fault" from my 48v charger -- according to the 48v charger user guide, the double-flash red light indicates batteries could be overcharged or too low. What should I be looking for in the individual batteries to know I have a solid foundation to work with?
This process doesn’t always work if the batteries are too far gone. If you have a voltage meter, I would suggest checking to see if the voltage is climbing on each individual battery. If the voltage drops back down to where you started immediately after disconnecting the charger, there is a good chance they will not take a charge.
@@GoodShepherdsHomestead Ended up buying a charger on Amazon that was 8 volt capable. Charging each individually for 30 minutes worked. It was worth $100 to have this back up plan. Thanks for the ideas!
Good video but you need to let people know that you need to make sure that your batteries are full with water and turn the switch off on tow position before charging the batteries 🔋
I recognized your shirt almost instantly :) Jesus is king!
My problem is that my club car charger takes 10+ hours charging before it stops charging. Have you experience that before?
If your batteries are old, low on water or deeply discharged 10 hours charge time is not unusual
Hi, I am in Canada and would like to know where to get this type of charger. Thank you
Good video thanks
I have been watching video
What's even easier than that is to take that power drive charger you have and jump the relay to force a charge then after about an hour put everything back the way it was plug the charger back in and let the charger do its thing.
How do you do that?
Mine r all brand new only a year old
Can i charge all the batteries at once or will that not work?
If you are using a 12 volt charger it will charge only to 12 or 13 volts. If you charge 6 batteries to 12v each one will only have 2 volts of charge (2x6=12).
That is why you do two at a time. Each battery should charge to 6v (12 volts - 2 batteries 6x2=12).
Then when you are done charging all six batteries two at a time, you will have around 36v. This will be enough for your factory charger to work.
@@GoodShepherdsHomestead oh ok thank you. That makes alot of sense actually. Im actually thinking about adding 6 more batteries to my own in paralell to get double the milage on the golf cart. What would happen if i put 48v pack on a 36v motor? Will it burn the motor up? Thanks in advanced
This worked for 5/6 batteries I have...3 ended up with about 8V, 2 with 6V, and 1 dud! This still adds up to about 36V, and you would then think that my cart charger would recognize the batteries and start up charging! But, NOOOOO! It wouldn't work at all. Is it possible that because of the 1 dead battery everything gets messed up? I do NOT want to have to buy 6 new 8V batteries because they cost an arm and a leg! They are Trojan T-875's. How can one check to see that the problem isn't actually the cart charger itself?
So I did it and it worked. But now, two weeks later they’re dead again. Has never happened before. Suggestions?
If you were able to completely charge your batteries and they are draining back down that quickly, then you probably are going to need new batteries. If you wanted to try to get everything you can out of these batteries then you could get a battery tender like this one amzn.to/2Ffbyv7 and just always put them on the battery tender when you park the cart.
Use your golf cart charger to charge the cart and then plug the tender in to keep them fully charged until the next time you want to use it.
@@GoodShepherdsHomestead Thank you for all the great information. Very well-presented! .... By the way, your Amazon link shows that that charger is no longer available...
@@andrewfyakim525 Its showing in stock for me currently.
Seems a nice and not destructable way of saving batteries - at our golf club we have 2017 Club Cars, and the charging system is lousy - so I'll test this and revert with comments
can you show us how to remove the front clutch of a club car ds
If we get one in that we need to do that to, we will certainly record that one. Thanks for the suggestion!
Do this ONE battery at a time.
What does having your charger "plugged up" mean?
I'm not sure if this is a serious question, but I'll answer anyway. "Plugged up" is a southern colloquialism that is often used in place of "plugged in". LOL
It wasn't a serious question as I travel to Virginia and Tennessee (Carthage) for work and have heard the phrase many times, but thank you for the response. Also, I recently purchased a home that came with a golf cart that would not charge, so I used your method and it worked. Although, I have one battery reading less than 4 volts the others are all just over 6, so I now know which one needs to be replaced. Thank you
@@jonhampton8128 I have a good friend from California that likes to pick on my use of certain words. I figured you were kidding... I'm glad you were able to get your cart going :)
@@GoodShepherdsHomestead Should have said "I figured you was pickin at me", just to complete the southern charm. I am from Texas so I know of which I speak......LOL
What about if the charger won’t charge the batteries all the way
Fishing For reels that means the battery is getting old.
Andrew Shaw but their only a year old
You can used 12 volt on a single 8 volt batter you just can’t leave it on too long 15-20 min
You made this confusing AF'k you said a 6-12 volt would work then you said in another sentence that it won't won't work. US people at home have just normal chargers. All these 45 amp numbers your slinging is like talking Chinese