Golf Cart

[fechter]

All right! Cart wars!

First one to the starting line wins.

[Arlo1]

All right! Cart wars!

First one to the starting line wins.

Mine is for this.

[Jay64]

All right! Cart wars!

First one to the starting line wins.

Wait a minute! I'm leaving today to go race at Daytona. We can't start a build contest right when I'm leaving for the start of my race season. And it looks like Arlo has quite a head start on me.

But seriously, I need to take off for Daytona for the races, then head down to Miami for testing, then turn around and take off for Colorado for more testing. I'll be studying up on this stuff in the mean time and probably asking questions to get the stuff figured out as much as possible, but I will only have a couple of days between now and next month to actually have hands on this thing.

[Jay64]

fechter, thanks for the input. Are you talking about the connections on the contactor?

I was looking at the connections inside the throttle box. If the rest of the car looks like that, taking apart every connection and cleaning would be a good start. A wire brush or even sand paper might be needed.

Did you find a wiring diagram that seems to match?

Yes, I believe this is the correct one. Or at least it is the closest I have found if it isn't exactly 100% identical. So far it seems to pretty much cover everything that I have in the cart.

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[fechter]

Good deal. That will help a lot.

One thing I've done in the past is to use a small DC motor for testing the controller. This prevents any major smoke/fire in the event of a bad part and you don't need to worry about the thing taking off on you. You can use a meter to check the integrity of the connections one at a time and work through the whole thing.

Well, good luck at the races!

[Jay64]

Thanks again Fechter. I'll keep y'all posted when I get some more progress done on it.