This is on a 2002 Electric Club Car golf cart. What would cause my battery charger to get so hot, that it will burn your hand to the touch? I had the charger in the shop previously for not working at all. A relay was replaced, and that is when this problem started. It will charge to 8 amps and thats it. The batteries are 2 year old Dekka's. Before all this started happening, the battery charger and the golf cart worked perfectly. It takes aprox 12 hrs to charge from 15 to 8 amps. Not right. I had the charger rechecked at another reputable shop, and the charger checks out ok.
Club Car Battery Charger To Hot To Touch
- Thread starter milowe
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BadToTheBone
Moderator
If the charger checked out ok at a "reputable shop" the problem is in the cart. The charger shouldnt get to hot to touch. Warm is ok but hot isnt. What is the battery voltage? Did the shop test your batteries?
PROBLEM SOLVED!! The problem was that I had the cart charger plugged into a receptacle located on the side of my RV. Even though the RV was running on a 50 amp system, it (RV) was acting as an extension cord (if you will) between the electrical main source that it was plugged into and my cart charger. Once the charger was plugged into a main 110 source, it charges the cart fine. Runs a little warm , not hot while charging. My research showed not to run the charger thru an extension cord, which will cause a malfunction, leading to a possible meltdown of the charger.
HotRodCarts
Cartaholic
Glad to hear your problem is solved. Thanks for the follow up.
gornoman
Well-Known Member
I'm gonna stick my neck out on this one and say it shouldn't matter, unless there is a problem with the AC side of your coach. Can you measure the AC voltage at both the coach outlet you were using and the wall outlet you switched to. If your coach cannot support the charger there is a serious problem with your coach, IMHO.
Not trying to start anything, just want to explore the issue.
Not trying to start anything, just want to explore the issue.
The wire size on the coach outlets is probably too small to support a high amperage charger. Like you mentioned, the outlet is just an extension of the line from the coach to the supply box. Although the cable to the supply box is adequate, the coach is probably internally wired with 14 ga wire which is too light to carry the amperage.