Electric Golf Cart Battery Terminal Melted

How to fix melted golf cart battery post.

Electric golf cart battery terminal melted.

Thank you for watching and please stick around and check out some of my other videos. I initially thought that the damage shown in the pictures below had come from accidentally leaving the battery cap loose. I mentioned losing a battery in our club car ezgo electric golf cart in a previous article. Rather than replace an otherwise good battery we ve gotten creative over the years and have learn how to easily handle this battery terminal repair.

I soon had to buy a new battery. How to repair melted battery terminals here s an easy fix i use for those batteries that have a loose stud or melted battery terminals. Ran fine for two weeks or so and the same thing happened to that cable. Checked the cable to the fifth battery had the insulation burned off of it at the very end where the loop fixture connects to the cable.

A few reasons that could trigger a battery post leak are given below. I have found if the factory studs get loose in the lead it will get hot and eventually melt the terminal. Why are my yamaha electric golf cart battery posts getting hot and melting. My golf cart came to a sudden halt.

The cart functions normal and does not give any indication that something is malfunctioning till it quits due to a post melting off. If there is anything you would like to see feel free to shoot me a mess. Here s how i did it. The terminal post of the golf cart battery is attached with the cable using a stainless steel.

With some help i managed to repair my broken battery terminal post. So it is almost certain that if either the cables terminals or both leaks your battery post is likely to leak soon. That repair didn t last long. The terminal of a golf cart battery will usually melt when connections become loose or dirty.

Noticed a burning odor while driving the golf cart. To avoid terminals melting ensure you use the correct size wires and that limps nuts and bolts are tightened securely. As it turns out i was wrong about that. The golf cart battery cables terminals and posts are all interrelated.

The post is associated with the. Over tightening of the nuts. The cable was about 18 long and i replace it with a cable about 12 long. Often the need to repair the terminal is due to a melted post or other scenario that does not allow the power wires to be secured to the terminal.