Golfcart Battery Question - DONT LAUGH..

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 8:48 am

Ok, my golfcart, which I have decked out with a mini-lightbar, wig-wags, whelen siren, and GM300 has 2 batterys, 1 for the starter on the engine, and the other for the acc's.. Sometimes if the starter battery is in use for a few hours runs down, even though it has a generator to charge it. Is it ok, to put like a battery switch like we use on the squads batteries, then make it use the acc battery for the starter? If so, where can I find one of those big switches for cheap? Or I could use a solenoid with a switch next to the emergency lighting switches.

Any advice is appreciated!

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 1:09 pm

HAHAHAHA

HAHAHHAHAHA

HAHAHHA

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Go to a boating store. They have the "Off / 1 / 2 / Both" switches that you can use. I'm not even going to beging guessing what this thing is used for....

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 3:20 pm

nmfire10 wrote:I'm not even going to beging guessing what this thing is used for....

Are you talking about the golf-cart?

mavericknet · Post by **mavericknet** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 4:09 pm

I don't get any response vehicle at my college to use, a golf cart would fill that nice little void......

Znarx · Post by **Znarx** » Sat Apr 19, 2003 7:56 pm

the golf police -
"BAD LIES, BAD LIES, whatcha gonna do when they stop for you? BAD LIES, BAD LIES"

"Car 01..this is Dispatch... we have a disturbance on tee 12, please respond"
"Distpacth this is 01, we are on the 9th fairway and proceeding"
"umm.. dispatch this is 01...we've run out of battery at the 11th tee and are proceeding on foot"
"Dispatch this is 01, we've arrived on the 12th tee and are clearing the disturbance (sound of seagulls being chased away in the background)"

LOLOLOLOL...couldn't help it!!!!....Z

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:57 am

Contact TST and they will have what you need.

If there is a GOOD auto parts in your area, get a Cole-Hersee catalog and they also can get the switch for you. CH has both the "on-off" and the "on 1-off-on 2-both" variety.

Golf carts' generators aren't that large. Most use a starter/generator setup which provides a few amps of charge current to run the ignition and replenish the battery after a start.
You may want to consider fabricating brackets and mounting a small Nippondenso or Bosch alternator to charge both batteries through an isolator (set charge at 14.8v). If you'd do this, eliminate the generator portion of the original starter/generator set. Use the battery switch to bypass the isolator and tie both batteries together if you run the aux. battery dead.

If you have a steering wheel horn button on this cart, be sure you connect the hands-free siren into the horn button so you don't have to let go of the wheel while in pursuit of gophers.

You now need to mount a ProGaurd electric gun release rack to put those valuable clubs in. Perhaps maybe keep the shotgun in there in case somebody cheats your game. I would actually recommend using the AR-15.

If you're gonna use a Whelen siren, at least make sure it's the Alpha12Q. We all just love the old GE PowerCall tone it reproduces.

007 · Post by **007** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:41 pm

jim wrote: If you have a steering wheel horn button on this cart, be sure you connect the hands-free siren into the horn button so you don't have to let go of the wheel while in pursuit of gophers.

You now need to mount a ProGaurd electric gun release rack to put those valuable clubs in. Perhaps maybe keep the shotgun in there in case somebody cheats your game. I would actually recommend using the AR-15.

If you're gonna use a Whelen siren, at least make sure it's the Alpha12Q. We all just love the old GE PowerCall tone it reproduces.

HA HA! ROTFLMAO!

(siren in background) "....Dispatch, this is squad 2....in pursuit on fairway 9....some PGA pro's just violated the do not leave path sign....they are failing to yeild..."

601 · Post by **601** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:45 pm

Hmm... maybe this can give ya some ideas!

olderookie · Post by **olderookie** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 4:25 pm

ok we have a "GEM" it is a chrysler electric car it is all decked out to be a dare care but some fool ran the m1225 ant wire diredtly under the siren box and when you tx it sounds the siren LOL I will post pics if I can its kinda cool in a cheap kinda way.LOL

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Sat May 03, 2003 11:30 am

If you have a steering wheel horn button on this cart, be sure you connect the hands-free siren into the horn button so you don't have to let go of the wheel while in pursuit of gophers.

I already beat u on that idea, Whelen Hands Free, with a horn button on the side..lol..works perfect.

wig wags on headlights and tail lights.
mini lightbar ontop.
motorola gm300 with 1/4 wave ant. on the side.

all the essentials...lol

F1118 · Post by **F1118** » Sun May 11, 2003 10:00 am

What exactly do you use the golf car for? . . . And do you happen to have any pictures of it? I bet it looks kinda cool.

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Sun May 11, 2003 10:42 am

anthony,

matter of fact I just spent 18 hours at Relay For Life Cancer walk providing first aid to the walkers, and I got a few pics. We use it alot for fairs, and other outdoor events where patients are hard to reach with a squad. I will post some pics as soon as I get them developed.

nick

wa2zdy · Post by **wa2zdy** » Mon May 12, 2003 4:16 am

motorolamonster911 wrote: . . . I will post some pics as soon as I get them developed.

nick

Developed? What's that? Is that like back in the 20th century where people actually had to take the pictures out of the camera and to the drug store where the pharmacist gave the pictures some drugs to wake them up so people could see them? Wow, that is so . . . so . . . so like last century!

I'm yanking your chain. Don't be offended. I just haven't seen anyone mention online about having film processed in a long time. I have a degree in photography, and the darkroom was my usual hangout. (Darkroom, not dark room. Get your minds out of the gutter!!!) In fact until my divorce in 1996 when I lost my house, I had a small custom processing business going on my very well equipped darkroom.

All in fun folks. All in fun. At least I didn't give him any abuse about golf carts and giant fish stories. Wait. . . I meant . . . oh, never mind.

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:08 am

Lost your house? I would have put her in a permantently dark room

ve2vfd · Post by **ve2vfd** » Wed May 21, 2003 11:42 am

Well, I certainly won't laugh... seen a few "decked out" golf carts used as in house industry fire/ems vehicles.

I do have a question though... how long does the battery last on that thing when you got all the lights, flashers and gadgets going? I can't imagine the little generator being able to sustain the amperage needed.

Pat
ve2vfd

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Wed May 21, 2003 12:17 pm

I have a seperate marine battery for lights, sirens, radios, ect.. I use a regular car battery to start the engine.

KH · Post by KH » Wed May 21, 2003 2:13 pm

We built one for a local tech school police chief. I'll take pics sometime. This thing runs 40 mph.

motorolamonster911 · Post by **motorolamonster911** » Sun May 25, 2003 7:10 am

Sorry for the delay on pics guys, they will be up in a few days. I took a whole roll of pics of expidition installs, toyato t-100 installs, and my golfcart. Hope you like!

Fri May 30, 2003 2:36 am

What would Happy Gilmore think??