Posted by John T on April 22, 2010 at 07:48:08 from (66.244.97.31):
I posted this on a Golf Cart Forum also, lookin for opinins from experienced electric golf cart dudes. My newly acquired "gift" is a 1997 EZ GO equipped with six Trojan T 105 6 volt batteries. Heres my post:
Okay Im NOT very electric golf cart experienced but am a retired electrical engineer and afraid my "Brainstorm" wont work, but wanted to run it past you experienced cart owners.
A Honda 2000 EU can work to run my charger when shes sets not a problem.....But I have this "Brainstorm" to stick the genset on the cart and try to charge it WHILE OPERATING to extend my battery life and range time.
Soooooo I figure the Honda will work and will power the charger BUT I figure when I load the cart and its pulling in the vicinity of say 30/40 amps out the batteries THE CIRCUIT BREAKER ON THE CHARGER WILL DROP OUT......... Now if it does so and she pulls back in now n then and stays in long enough to put some battery charge in she will work over the long haul to extend operating time buttttttttttt if she short cycles the chargers circuit breaker and exceeds it or the chargers duty cycles, either the breaker or charger may suffer harm.
My best pure guess is on a hard pull the cart may draw upwards of 40 amps yet the charger red lines at 25 and Im guessing its circuit breaker will open at 30 amps so she should open but if that keeps up over n over n over any actual charge time will be minimal and the charger or breaker may fail from over duty/over cycling grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I think if the cart were easy cruising on blacktop (say a 25 amp battery draw) my idea may work but stop n go driving at the Florida Flywheelers on that soft sandy ground will overwork the charger MY BRAINSTORM FAILS LOL
So whatcha yall think
PS I have used my Yamaha gas Golf Cart there for years (it can run night n day all week hauling 4 fat a$$es all over that soft sand lol) but just had this idea regardign my electric cart
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