Georgiadawgs78
Senior Member
I bought a 1998 Club Car DS 48vfor a pretty good deal. The batteries are around a year old but they haven't been taken care of and the cart was completely dead when I got it and has been dead for 6-8 months. They basically put new batteries in it and ran in a few times then let it sit and go so dead the charger wouldn't kick on and left it sitting.
So long story short I bought it home and just started each battery till the main charger kicked on. I got it kicked on around lunch one day and let it charge til about 5 or so and then took it for a spin and it ran good but could tell it wasn't fully charged. But I ran it prob a mile or so and it didn't have any problems. Well I charged it that night and come out and charger off so I unplugged and plugged back up and when I came home from work it was off again. So I took it for a ride and got 20 yards and knew it wasn't going to make it anywhere. So I parked if and it barley made it back up the slight hill. So I plugged charger up and let it charge for 45 minutes and drove it and it was weak but I made it 200 yards down to the parents and back but again barely made it up the hill.
So I charged over night, the charger cut off sometime during the night, and tested the batteries this morning. The first 4 read 8.2, the 5th read 7.2, and the 6th read 4.6 Total voltage was 46 and some change. I could tell when I tried to drive it wasn't going to make it so I didn't even try. It felt like it was kinda vibrating when driving it back up the incline to park it and I had to help push it up the slight hill.
The last two were the ones they had the lights and radio hooked up to, but I disconnected them when I got the cart to make sure they weren't drawing the batteries down.
I tested the battery charger on the batteries and it was at 52v when charging. And the 4 good batteries were testing at 9v or so.
My question is one bad battery and one weak battery enough to not let the cart really run at all? And why did it run so good right out the gate the first time but not run since then? I'm swaying more towards just replacing all 6 batteries since these were never maintained right to begin with. But I don't want to spend $600-$700 on batteries and have a bad computer or motor or something. Also anybody know of any place in NE Ga with good battery deals?
Sorry for all the rambling and thanks in advance for any help.
So long story short I bought it home and just started each battery till the main charger kicked on. I got it kicked on around lunch one day and let it charge til about 5 or so and then took it for a spin and it ran good but could tell it wasn't fully charged. But I ran it prob a mile or so and it didn't have any problems. Well I charged it that night and come out and charger off so I unplugged and plugged back up and when I came home from work it was off again. So I took it for a ride and got 20 yards and knew it wasn't going to make it anywhere. So I parked if and it barley made it back up the slight hill. So I plugged charger up and let it charge for 45 minutes and drove it and it was weak but I made it 200 yards down to the parents and back but again barely made it up the hill.
So I charged over night, the charger cut off sometime during the night, and tested the batteries this morning. The first 4 read 8.2, the 5th read 7.2, and the 6th read 4.6 Total voltage was 46 and some change. I could tell when I tried to drive it wasn't going to make it so I didn't even try. It felt like it was kinda vibrating when driving it back up the incline to park it and I had to help push it up the slight hill.
The last two were the ones they had the lights and radio hooked up to, but I disconnected them when I got the cart to make sure they weren't drawing the batteries down.
I tested the battery charger on the batteries and it was at 52v when charging. And the 4 good batteries were testing at 9v or so.
My question is one bad battery and one weak battery enough to not let the cart really run at all? And why did it run so good right out the gate the first time but not run since then? I'm swaying more towards just replacing all 6 batteries since these were never maintained right to begin with. But I don't want to spend $600-$700 on batteries and have a bad computer or motor or something. Also anybody know of any place in NE Ga with good battery deals?
Sorry for all the rambling and thanks in advance for any help.