[littleCedar]

Originally Posted by littleCedar

We are being asked to do more documentation of our battery problems in our 2012 fleet. As I've mentioned, the autofills have not been working properly and some carts are routinely dying on the first 18 holes.

As for the four carts that always show charger faults, slow flashing red light, a battery temperature fault, we took the temps of each of the batteries during charging, before faulting, and they were all in the 140° range. Our "control" carts were all in the 80-90° range.

I took the voltage of each of the batteries after disconnecting them from the charger, and one was in the 10's, suggesting a short. Some were near 12.0, suggesting end of life.

Two carts died on the first 18 yesterday, and when I got them in, a battery in each was reading 6 volts, while the other three in each were reading 12.3-12.5.

Yeah, the back battery, the one that corrodes.

So, now I guess I will be in the process of taking voltage readings on all the batteries.

Each of the four carts with hot batteries during charging have regularly had autofill failures, valves not closing and cells overfilling.