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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
stuff snipped by Alan
If you own and drive an electric cart it's not a matter of if you will be towed home, but when. It will happen. Might be user error, age problem, or many other issues, but at some point you will be towed home. You will not get the plug all the way in the night before, you will forget to add water, leave the lights on, go to far, something, but it will happen. Now all the electric fans will chime in and say "never happened to me", but just wait it will happen.
However I still love my electric cart and drive it often. But I still keep a tow rope in the glove box.
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This may be the first time I have read one of your posts and not agreed or at least understand your point, so I
respectfully disagree.
It does however bring up a good point for the OP. If you go electric, get an on dash digital voltmeter. A full tank is about 51 volts, an empty tank is about 46.5 volts. If you are sitting at a stop sign and your meter says 47.5, it may be time to head for home...
Get a cart where your normal daily usage does not discharge the cart below 48.5 volts. How deeply you discharge the pack is part of maintenance.
When discussing range, there are two interesting pieces of information 1. how far and 2. what was ending voltage. People often do not pay attention to number 2 and then wonder why their packs last 26 months.
When my batteries were two years old I did a couple of tests. I will not bore you here. If you wish to be bored, see this post:
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...80-post13.html
These same batteries are approaching end of life. They were 5 years old this past February. My wife and I live in Mallory, we recently played Glenview, came home, then went for a ride to Brownwood. Voltage when done was about 47.6.
Good luck!