golf cart grounding

woodbutcher

Well-known Member
My 2006 BadBoyBuggy Classic is really just a glorified golf cart with mud grips, but it stopped working several months ago. It spent a couple of weeks at a golf cart
repair shop where they assured me the problem was a loose wire. But they must have gotten tired of looking at it, so they called and told me to come get it. They didn't
charge me anything. So, I'm looking at it myself. The motor controller is healthy, because I took it out and sent it to be rebuilt. When I re-installed it, there is
the same problem: when I turn on the key, the solenoid clicks but the cart won't move. With my voltage tester, I can read the correct voltage when I touch each post of
a battery with the leads, but when I check the connections at the switches and relays, I can't seem to find a reliable place to ground the black lead. Does anyone know
how to make this tester show whether I'm getting the voltage I need in the right places?
Butch
 
It sounds like you need a longer ground wire. Just get a jumper cable and hook it up to the battery and hook your tester to the other end, then you should have a ground any where you need it.

Bob
 
Electric carts are not grounded to the frame/chassis at all. The batteries,solenoids,motor etc are all on a circuit isolated from the chassis. Is your cart based on an EZGO,Club Car or some other brand? 36 or 48 volt?

Garry
 
Garry,
This thing has a 48 volt system based on EZGO. They say EZGO bought the BadBoy company after these Classics had accelerator problems. EZGO won't provide any support for
problems with the Classic.
Butch
 
Mine did the same thing.. I took it in and found it was the F/R switch had corroded on the back side.
ezgo cart.. it would start to go/click and stop.. reverse-the beeper would beep.. I tried to pull the trouble codes, none found. I finally took it in..
 
As mentioned the system should not be grounded to the carts frame. Find the ground wire running from your lights, radio, etc back to the battery or run a long jumper back to the - side of the battery pack.
 
This is purely a guess, but as others say, the motor is not grounded to the chassis. My assumption would be because to change direction, the motor polarity reverses, therefore no case or terminal ground. With this in mind, test the controller like you would a double throw reversing switch.

If you block the drive wheels off the ground you can do some testing under actual load conditions.
 

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