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az native
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Battery Or Charger Problems

12/11/2011 11:15 AM

Dear all-My X wife complains that her electric car's [2 seats,3 wheels] lead acid, 1year old battery, is too weak.May be it is a problem of the battery, or of the charger, or any "malcombination" of both?

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12/11/2011 11:28 AM

Maybe....why don't you go and have it checked?

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12/11/2011 12:05 PM

O-kay, it seems that I asked a wrong question, the question should be: If there may be a "weak battery"' or a "weak charger".

Our guy who is maintaining those electric cars, claims that such a device should work, or not work, but not being weak!
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12/11/2011 12:14 PM

That's pure rubbish...There could be any number of problems...Take it to somebody else.

http://www.buggiesgonewild.com/electric-ezgo/

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12/11/2011 12:17 PM

Without knowing a LOT more about this there's no help for you.

The vehicle may be equipped with some safety cut-off or control circuit.

No details, no help.

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Re: battery or charger problems

12/11/2011 11:29 AM

Fully charge the battery, then check the specific gravity..................never mind, see this:

Battery Testing, Maintenance And Myths
Then check the charger output. We'll need specific bat/charger information to do more.

A more permanent solution to this problem would be to move far, far away from your X.

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12/11/2011 1:17 PM

An X-wife complains ..... whoda thunk?
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12/12/2011 3:18 AM

Walk away from this problem. For the second time...

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