On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 07:29:43 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
.. .

I was given a "dead" golf cart. It took almost $6 to fix it and I
sold it for $950, then gave the gifter a Benji for the trouble.
A 1-foot battery cable was the culprit, preventing the charger from
working, too. I had started to clean the battery terminals when I
found it, and couldn't stop chuckling.

There's some subtle engineering in those things to keep the cost down.
I was initially puzzled by the relay in the charger that only
energizes the output when connected to a battery. The charger wasn't
working because the capacitor in the tank circuit of the transformer
was bad, a problem that a DVM doesn't show.

Mine was a simple open circuit in the battery system, one cable end
eaten away and hanging loose out in the air, 1/4" from Nirvana.


Fortunately I learned about ferroresonant and magnetic amplifier
circuits in the Army.

I still wish I'd spent more time as an electronics tech. 3 years plus
Coleman College wasn't enough to truly know much of the field, by any
means. But I bailed from the cubicles and what I felt may be an
overpowering corporate mentality which came about when the original
company was taken over by a global giant, SKF. They closed the
Carlsbad, CA plant and wanted all of us to drive down to Clairemont
Mesa (upper Sandy Eggo) to work, adding 2+ hours to my commute time
daily for no extra pay. 17 minutes each way wasn't bad.

--
Find out what people will submit to, and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
--Frederick Douglass