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Old 08-04-2010, 01:26 PM
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I am also no expert, but enjoy DIY on my carts and always enjoy chatting about them.

As gn stated, the charger should shut off when the pack is fully charged or long before 17 hours even if it cannot bring the battery set up to charge. If the pack is fully charged and the charger is sending in high voltage this is not good for the life of your batteries.

If it has really been charging 17 hours, I would document the current output of the charger, then I would shut the charger off. Let it sit for an hour and take the voltage of the pack, then the voltage of each battery. The voltage should be very high.

Have you done any work lately? Wires, new OBC?

There are some good folks out here that may have some ideas...