How to Hook Up a Battery to a Club Car
If you have a Club Car electric vehicle, over time the batteries will stop maintaining a charge, which will greatly reduce the distance you can travel in the vehicle before you have to plug it in again. If your Club Car does not travel as far as it once did, you may need to replace the batteries. You can replace the batteries in your Club Car in just a few minutes.
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Instructions
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Determine whether you have a 36- or 48-volt vehicle. Look at the plug on the charging cable. If the plug is rectangular, you have a 36-volt system. If the plug is round with three prongs, you have a 48-volt system.
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Purchase the proper battery for your vehicle. Buy deep-cycle lead acid batteries built for electric vehicles; car batteries will not work. You will need six 6-volt batteries if you have a 36-volt vehicle; 48-volt vehicles require six 8-volt batteries or four 12-volt batteries.
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Remove the old batteries. Open the battery compartment at the front of the vehicle. Draw a diagram of all the batteries with a map of how each post is wired to the next. Since you have multiple batteries in a golf cart, you must wire them in a series. If you wire one battery incorrectly, the entire system will not work. Remove the battery cables from the terminals of each battery, one at a time.
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Replace the batteries. Install each battery one at a time, referring to your wiring diagram if unsure which terminal you must wire to which lead. Repeat the process until you have replaced all batteries.
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Charge the vehicle. If you are charging this set of batteries for the first time, cycle the batteries: Discharge them 50 percent and recharge them fully, then run the cart until the voltage meter reads half full. You must repeat this process several times before the batteries become fully charged.
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References
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