Pride Jet-3 Robot Project Battery Charger Question

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Greetings Everyone,

So I’m building my first robot using an EZ-Robot EZ-B, a Sabertooth 60 X 60 Motor controller, and a Pride Jet-3 Powered Wheelchair as the base. Got all my parts together, just have a question about the battery charger. The chair has a Pride 2904-24 24 volt Automatic 3-stage on-board battery charger. I have removed the joystick controller from the chair. There is a 3 prong plug that comes out of the charger, I think it is an inhibit control that shuts the controller/chair off when the chair is charging. I can’t find anything online about what the wires are. I would love to use the charger but don’t know if this is possible since I removed the joystick control which could have some circuits for the charger contained in it. Has anyone used the charger without the joystick control in place. One other question, is it possible to wire the charger to the batteries and charge them without unhooking the Sabertooth? I sure don’t want to damage it by charging the batteries with the Sabertooth plugged up.

Thanks so much for your time and any help!!!

TheCrustyChicken

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Yeah, I got ahead of myself and cut all the wires from the back of the connector that goes to the joystick control plug. LOL… And of course didn’t document where they came from… If all else fails, I’ll just get an external charger… Got the sabertooth from you guys, looking forward to getting it all hooked up!!! Thought someone else might of already figured out the on-board charger… Pride doesn’t have any service information at all online… :frowning: Maybe I could figure out the wiring if I disassemble the plug on the end of the controller…

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Perhaps you could put the chair system back together and measure the output of those the wires when the battery is charging or not in order to figure out what do they do.