Pride handycap scooter

Coloken · Apr 20, 2011

Well, not quite a tractor but. Scooter will travel a short distance then stop, delay maybe 30 seconds. and then go again. Voltage meter show full voltage, does not change, so not in battery wires. Motor brushes? maybe? It has all ways started back up again after a bit, but I can't trust it down the street cause I might have to walk back.
You fellows are so good, how about this one?

Anonymous-0 · Apr 20, 2011

sure the battery is OK?????? Have a couple cordless tools that'll do just about what you are describing when the battery is about shot.

Dave

Handyman · Apr 20, 2011

My first thought would be a self resetting circuit breaker tripping out, might want to check for a loose connection there.

JR Frye · Apr 20, 2011

My DADS handycap scooter was doing the same thing
I checked all of the conection"s and the battery conections, check for a pinched wire, all so check the switch that turns it on. Those scooters can be a brain burner.We finiley found it it was a battery conection.It works;
GOOD LUCK;
JR FRYE

dhamps10 · Apr 20, 2011

Can you check the voltage while it is running? I am having trouble with mine, and hooked a digetial (sp) tester to it. It showed 12.6 volt (1 battery hooked to tester), but soon dropped to 11.9. I do need new batteries. Voltage should never drop below 12.

Coloken · Apr 20, 2011

Batteries are new and OK. As I stated, the volt meter stays high even when it is stopped. Actually, it goes up just a bit as it stops, no load. Got to be an open circuit some where after the meter. Hope it is not the computer board. Any body got a circuit diagram for it?

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Apr 21, 2011

You will not like my answer, but prepare for more trouble. I have owned 3 scooters over the years, and my Pride was by for the sorriest one of the bunch. It was always having problems with bad connections, faulty breaker, etc. When the motor started causing trouble I gave it away and bought an Osprey. I have never regretted it. Yes, I paid for all of them out of my pocket. Most scooters are sold to Medicaid at inflated prices, and are built just barely well enough to last the 2 years it takes before medicare will replace them.

GarryinNC · Apr 21, 2011

Check the connector that feeds power from the controller to the motor. I worked on two scooters(golden 'something' brand) and the plug in connector to the motor had gotten so hot, it had melted. The positive and negative would touch slightly sometimes and cause the very problem you describe. I cut out the old connector and crimped on copper lugs and connected those together with a #10 machine screw and nut. Used heat shrink,wire loom,cold shrink tape etc.

GarryinNC · Apr 21, 2011

It is late at night after a long day and I am not sure I said it correctly in my prev. post. I think so much resistance was building up when the connector would get hot that the scooter would stop. When it cooled some it would go again. This was all pretty random on the timing. I know if the pos. and neg. touched for very long the main breaker would trip. The motors ran fine when I cut the old connector loose and temp. straight wired it to the batt. A small gauge elec. brake wire also went through this connection but was not in the melted part.

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