Hi David, Send an inquiry to Roderick @v <http://vgc.com>intagegolfcartparts.com He has over 25 years experience with these things! -Tom
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, 9:44 PM David Nelson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 1993 Club Car 36V golf cart I'm trying to resurrect for a > charitable organization. I hooked up some batteries to test it out and > it worked for about a minute, then the contactor just clicked on then > off immediately and nothing happens after that. Disconnecting the > battery and reconnecting is the only way to get the contactor to > "click" again. I've checked every microswitch, cleaned the throttle > pot, cleaned the F-N-R mechanical switch contacts, verified that the > contactor works properly when run independently. The series motor > brushes and armature are in excellent shape, and runs fine. I finally > tracked down the Curtis 1204 controller manual and went through the > troubleshooting steps and the best I can determine is that the > controller is not working. During testing today I noticed that the > precharge resistor would get rather hot. Then the contactor quit > clicking on then off like it used to and the resistor no longer would > get warm. Obviously I'm talking about when the contactor was open. > Voltage to the inputs on the controller were normal but there was > never any voltage or current on the output. > > It appears that I need to replace or repair the controller. If it were > my golf cart, I'd just buy a $150-$200 clone and call it good but I > don't want it quitting on someone else. Would I be best to ship it to > Curtis or someone like cloudelectric.com to be rebuilt? I haven't > found any used or new Curtis 1204 controllers available. > > Thanks, > > -- > David D. Nelson > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230627/cd27c1ef/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
