Helping out my father who has a Hyster electric pallet jack, I think it's w60z model.
He wanted me to help with adding distilled water to the 4 batteries, which are 6v GC2 model typically used in golf carts as far as my research goes.
After swinging the first battery on its own arm mechanism to get to the one below it like this
One of the cables connected to the terminal via lug of the top battery broke most likely due to corrosion(I also saw ppl mention golf cart cables have the same issue)
The cable is marked as 6 AWG or 6-gauge, which is also typical for golf carts.
Would it be ok to get a 4-gauge car battery cable like these? I cannot find 6-gauge cable at least not searchable within the hardware stores around me and I want to avoid crimping the lug if possible due to lack of crimping tool.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/motomaster-top-post-battery-cable-4-gauge-0110931p.html#srp
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/...-battery-cable-4-gauge-0110961p.html#srp
My father needs it in about 9 hours from now to unload pallets and I was thinking of heading to hardware stores to grab supplies in the early morning and fix it up before heading to work myself.
Would it be okay to temporarily replace this cable so that the batteries can be in a series again, charge it up and use it for 1 day?
Do I need to replace the other cable to the same battery with 4-gauge as well or just replace the bad one is fine and won't cause issue?
He wanted me to help with adding distilled water to the 4 batteries, which are 6v GC2 model typically used in golf carts as far as my research goes.
After swinging the first battery on its own arm mechanism to get to the one below it like this
One of the cables connected to the terminal via lug of the top battery broke most likely due to corrosion(I also saw ppl mention golf cart cables have the same issue)
The cable is marked as 6 AWG or 6-gauge, which is also typical for golf carts.
Would it be ok to get a 4-gauge car battery cable like these? I cannot find 6-gauge cable at least not searchable within the hardware stores around me and I want to avoid crimping the lug if possible due to lack of crimping tool.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/motomaster-top-post-battery-cable-4-gauge-0110931p.html#srp
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/...-battery-cable-4-gauge-0110961p.html#srp
My father needs it in about 9 hours from now to unload pallets and I was thinking of heading to hardware stores to grab supplies in the early morning and fix it up before heading to work myself.
Would it be okay to temporarily replace this cable so that the batteries can be in a series again, charge it up and use it for 1 day?
Do I need to replace the other cable to the same battery with 4-gauge as well or just replace the bad one is fine and won't cause issue?