Hi Ian, an informative video that should help some people. Another thing that can cause problems, water ingress and corrosion of terminals. Say hi to Jenny have a good weekend and be lucky.
Hi, Ian. I enjoy your videos. I am a rehab tech and do 95% of all the repairs and all of the assemblies at our full DME company. Two items. First is quick. Here in Pennsylvania we have all four seasons. After a long, cold winter I'll get many call of scooters w/o power. First question I ask is when did you use it last. Usually, they say 3+ months ago. Batteries fell below the charger low voltage threshold and won't charge. Sometimes I can bring them back and sometimes I can't. As Clive mentioned, water ingress. Had a Quantum Edge 3 that wasn't powering on. Got the chair in the shop. 4 volts combined on the 5 month old chair. The chair has lights and the client probably left the lights on by accident for 3 days. I opened the battery compartment and everything was covered in mud. Brought the batteries back up to 13.2v, individually. Put them back in the chair a charged with the client's charger. The charger never showed fully charged. Tried two other chargers.... still wouldn't go to fully charged. Pride sent new 22NF batteries. Installed the new batteries and did some light filing on the contacts to remove some darker areas. All is good now. The original batteries are fine and I'll use them on a rental. I'm guessing that the marks on the contacts prevented the charger from properly reading/seeing the voltage. Weird. Keep up the great work. David
@@lasvegasscootersliftsIt's not the cold causing issues, it's people letting their scooters sit for 4+ months and never charging them. Then they try to charge them, but the battery voltage dropped too low. As COVID started to wind down, I saw a rash of bloated batteries in Go Go scooters. Those Interceptor batteries are the worst.
Just noticed your username, bass player for life here too👍👍 David you are 100% correct about the Interceptor batteries Pride put in their scooters. They were absolute garbage. All the ones I saw were bloated too, so glad Pride drop that supplier. Your charger can tell you a lot about your battery condition too. If the charger is charging for longer than 12 hours usually means bad batteries. That distinct smell of hot acid is another, and also like you said refusing to charge is also a good sign too. Keep on slapping my friend 👍👍
The biggest issue i have experienced is not being able to repair/fix is the battery meter lights going down fast even after switching the batteries twice with new ones. Besides the battery can it be the battery meter or anything else ?
Hey Rodrigo thanks for watching my first question would be depending on the who makes the scooter. Then I would ask the following How old is the scooter and have you owned it from new? What is the weight of the person riding it? What kind of terrain are you ridding on? any inclines above 8 deg (1 inch rise) rough or loose surface like grass, sand or dirt paths? The reason I asked who makes the scooter, some Drive and Golden LED battery meters sometimes lie to you about how much battery power you have left and show last red light on the meter and the scooter keeps going and going..... Sometimes to test the LED volt meters on these scooters you have to ride them until the batteries fail.
Hi Ian, an informative video that should help some people. Another thing that can cause problems, water ingress and corrosion of terminals. Say hi to Jenny have a good weekend and be lucky.
Thanks Clive good call, I knew I'd miss something. Stay busy and safe trip to rainy old England. Have a Carling for me brother.
Hi, Ian. I enjoy your videos. I am a rehab tech and do 95% of all the repairs and all of the assemblies at our full DME company.
Two items. First is quick. Here in Pennsylvania we have all four seasons. After a long, cold winter I'll get many call of scooters w/o power. First question I ask is when did you use it last. Usually, they say 3+ months ago. Batteries fell below the charger low voltage threshold and won't charge. Sometimes I can bring them back and sometimes I can't.
As Clive mentioned, water ingress. Had a Quantum Edge 3 that wasn't powering on. Got the chair in the shop. 4 volts combined on the 5 month old chair. The chair has lights and the client probably left the lights on by accident for 3 days. I opened the battery compartment and everything was covered in mud. Brought the batteries back up to 13.2v, individually. Put them back in the chair a charged with the client's charger. The charger never showed fully charged. Tried two other chargers.... still wouldn't go to fully charged. Pride sent new 22NF batteries. Installed the new batteries and did some light filing on the contacts to remove some darker areas. All is good now. The original batteries are fine and I'll use them on a rental.
I'm guessing that the marks on the contacts prevented the charger from properly reading/seeing the voltage. Weird.
Keep up the great work.
David
Thanks David, not sure if heat is worse than cold for batteries but I know I'm thankful don't work on Quantum chairs.
@@lasvegasscootersliftsIt's not the cold causing issues, it's people letting their scooters sit for 4+ months and never charging them. Then they try to charge them, but the battery voltage dropped too low.
As COVID started to wind down, I saw a rash of bloated batteries in Go Go scooters. Those Interceptor batteries are the worst.
Just noticed your username, bass player for life here too👍👍
David you are 100% correct about the Interceptor batteries Pride put in their scooters. They were absolute garbage. All the ones I saw were bloated too, so glad Pride drop that supplier. Your charger can tell you a lot about your battery condition too. If the charger is charging for longer than 12 hours usually means bad batteries. That distinct smell of hot acid is another, and also like you said refusing to charge is also a good sign too. Keep on slapping my friend 👍👍
The biggest issue i have experienced is not being able to repair/fix is the battery meter lights going down fast even after switching the batteries twice with new ones. Besides the battery can it be the battery meter or anything else ?
Hey Rodrigo thanks for watching my first question would be depending on the who makes the scooter.
Then I would ask the following
How old is the scooter and have you owned it from new?
What is the weight of the person riding it?
What kind of terrain are you ridding on? any inclines above 8 deg (1 inch rise) rough or loose surface like grass, sand or dirt paths?
The reason I asked who makes the scooter, some Drive and Golden LED battery meters sometimes lie to you about how much battery power you have left and show last red light on the meter and the scooter keeps going and going.....
Sometimes to test the LED volt meters on these scooters you have to ride them until the batteries fail.