How to tell if your Mobility Scooter needs new batteries battery troubleshooting 

www.mobilityx.co.uk

Common sealed lead acid (SLA) mobility scooter batteries can lose their "oomph" and rechargeability in 2-4 years, even when kept properly charged and not exposed to excessive heat. Batteries gradually lose their charge even when not being used. Putting your scooter away for the winter, and not keeping the batteries charged, will kill or seriously weaken the batteries so that they won't charge. Leaving your travel scooter batteries in a hot car trunk, or in a hot garage, will also kill your batteries. New replacement batteries may be weak if they are old stock and/or they have not been kept properly charged in the warehouse before sale. Running batteries down to near dead will shorten the useful life of batteries. If you use your scooter for a mile or two, put it on charge over night. If you charge your batteries, but don't use the scooter for a week, charge the batteries over night. If you forget and leave your batteries on charge for another 8 hours, they should not be harmed. Leaving batteries on charge continuously will damage them. Think of scooter batteries as "fuel" and as "consumables". Get yourself a cheap multimeter and use it to check voltage. Mobility scooters use two 12 volt batteries in series for 24 volts. A good scooter battery should read over 25 volts with no load. When your scooter beeps and won't run, it's usually a sign that batteries are bad or uncharged.

Hello... I left my Escooter in the Garage and I didnt charge it. Now my Escooter wont charge. I am Guessing I need a new battery. There was nothing wrong with it about 3 months ago. I didnt know you supposed to keep it charged and in the house. How do I get my Escooter to charge. If I need a battery do you sell them. I live in America. I purchased the Escooter Less than a Year ago on Amazon. It is the: Aovopro Electric Scooter 350W Motor, Up to 19 Miles Long-Range Brand AOVOPRO ES80

But it also makes a difference what type of batteries you have. I live on the mountain and have a disability and am not allowed to use public transport with my senior mobile. I often travel with my mobile and need a lot of energy. I drive with it all year round. They are for me Gel batteries are the worst choice because you can only discharge them to a certain point. The AGM batteries that I have been driving for 3 years without any problems are 200 amps and are best charged overnight every day. The gel batteries couldn't cope with the load, constant climbs + weather. They were defective for me after half a year. The first batteries lasted 2 years

When I put my mobility chair in the garage I left the switch on. Battery flat put on charge ,still no life. Do I need a new battery ? or nave I burnt out a circuit ??

Left mine on charge all night, i only went 5 mins down the road and the scooter cut out, do i need a new battery, i bought it online yesterday.

Anyone with one of these scooters could have easily foretold the fate of the electric car industry.

My scooter I bought second hand 3 months ago never used it until today, tho have charged it every month, now it has a blue flashing light and the alarm beeps when riding it just a few yards, luckily I was not far from home 5 mins away, so turned round scooter was dead slow, but managed to get home, when I took the key out and put it back in the light stopped flashing and it was back to normal speed, I parked it up and covered it as it stays outdoors , is it the batteries or something wrong with the computer in it ? The small company I bought it from did tell me to contact him if the blue light starts flashing, which I have done but he’s yet to respond.

If you switch to lithium batteries you will need a lithium type battery charger and some kind of add-on battery capacity meter , the one on your scooter is designed for SLA type batteries and will not show battery capacity remaining accurately. Airlines have limits on capacity of Lithium batteries. You might consider selling your existing scooter and buying a Pride Go Go Endurance Lithium Scooter with optional lower capacity airline legal and higher capacity, non airline legal, lithium batteries. Expect other brands of mobility scooters to convert from SLA to Lithium power in the next few years.

Get a capicty test done on your batteries at a reputable scooter shop

Hi I have an old pride colt deluxe 2.0 scooter and 2 yr ago I bought 2 12v 50ah battery’s all was good and it charged great but I have left it a while as I only used it for my holidays to Disney now when I charge it only chargers to about 40% and no higher even if I leave it charging do I need to buy new batteries or can I fix this thank you in advance

My leo scooter won't work

What size battery does it take

I own a used Pride Victory 10 3 wheel atv scooter I'd like to replace my 2 dc 12volt lead acid batteries with 12 volt lithium batteries and as the Lithium units that I have seen are half the weight & physical size as the lead acid units I will be replac8ng, I'd like to get 4 12volt batteries so when the 1rst set runs down I could have a switch & fuse in the system to switch over. This could1 increase the range. 2 help me better maintain both sets of batteries over time because I wouldn't be as prone to running either set of batteries to low. any thoughts on this ?