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Old 04-18-2011, 10:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ajbrown View Post
Sounds like you have a good set of batteries. From my experiences, you may be the exception having a cart that can travel 50 miles. What kind of cart do you drive?

Most carts cannot go 50 miles on a charge. Very few should do so without discharging the batteries too low reducing the life of the battery pack.
We have a Star car. It is a street legal version and has a hi/low speed switch which converts it from regular golf cart speed (low) to street legal speed (high). When in hi-speed mode we can not go great distances - but usually quite adequate for our normal driving. If we plan to go longer, we shift it to regular golf cart speed and, as I indicated, it allows us to go from Hemmingway to Lopez and back (at night) with plenty of remaining juice. But our cart was not unique. We did this as part of a neighborhood golf outing and everyone's electric cart made it with no problem.