Adding Water To Your Golf Cart Batteries

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Adding water to your golf cart batteries. All of our 2016 club car precedents come preloaded with these systems. So if you bring your golf car home with discharged batteries and proceed to fill the cells with water you have just over watered them. One of the worst is water that has been softened by commonly used water softeners. So here is another rule.

Only water your batteries after the vehicle has cooled down from a full charge. 3 always use distilled water so you don t add additional minerals into your battery. And we also want to help you be great caretakers of your golf cart. Today mike demonstrates how to use the flow rite watering systems for your batteries.

Adding water after charging prevents acid from spilling over. When a golf cart is exposed to high temperatures for a prolonged period of time the water inside the battery tends to evaporate. You ll want to add water to 1 2 inch from the top of the battery. A couple of key points to take heed to when watering your batteries.

This makes the plates to get exposed in the air much longer and because of this the plates start to dry out and flake off. Use only distilled water in your batteries. Water softeners leave chlorides in the water and they are very bad for batteries. Kerry shows you how to properly fill your electric golf cart s batteries.

Batteries in your golf cart need to be watered on a monthly to quarterly basis. As you charge the levels will increase even further. It is ideal to check the water level inside of your batteries once a month at the very least. As the water continues to evaporate the water level becomes lower and lower.

2 we recommend service once or twice a year.