Today I have a new project, slightly off the technical path of most of my endeavors. I bought a golf cart, a pretty nice little ride, a 2017 Yamaha, 4-seater 0 in very good shape for it’s age.
It is not a “jump in and ride” deal, but more of a fixer-upper. It came with a battery charger, but that did not work, and of course all of the batteries are dead.
Six large, heavy 8 volt batteries that weigh a ton and killed me just lifting them out of the battery bay. Wow. 6 x 8 = 48 – 48 Volt golf cart. They all need to be replaced. And a new charger.
Of course, being me that thinks I can fix anything, decided to buy a new charger for the cart and try to bring the batteries back to life.
A couple day wait on Amazon and a shiny new charger arrived. Plugged in perfectly to the cart and well, it did not recognize anything, no batteries, no nothing, it just blinked yellow.
Dammit.
So my next call was to a local Golf Cart shop to get battery prices. $1900 for the lead-acid 8 volt replacement batteries, or $2995 for a single Lithium battery kit. Ouch.
I again pulled up my friend Amazon and ordered a $1299 Lithium battery kit (Comes with battery, charger, gauge, and mounting hardware) that was on a flash sale for $949.
It is advertised to run for 50 miles, and will take 6000 charge cycles. 35% more speed/power/longevity that the standard lead-acid batteries. I am in, excited because it will arrive today and I will get it installed.
Check back soon for the performance specs of the new set up!
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