Plug connector overheating

Battery & Chargers
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Hi, very new here. I inherited my parents 2001 gem cart and all has been pretty good until recently. Over the past month, when I plug in the cart to charge, the extension cord got a bit warm or maybe even hot. Yesterday, I was charging it and it stopped charging quickly and I noticed that the extension cord plug had melted a bit and one of the three prongs on the cart was very loose (almost to the point where if I tried I could remove it like a loose tooth :)). I have not charged it since and thinking I need to replace the assembly on the cart with the three prongs. Any suggestions or experience with this?

Thanks very much,

Mark

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Have you changed that power cord recently?
Even if >no< then connections wear out, get dirty/corrode.

A warm cord says it may have been too small of a cord. 16ga min, better if 12g. Keep it as short as possible.

Melted plug says it was a bad connection either in the cord, or the socket it was plugged into.

Best is to replace both.

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If you need to replace the plug on the GEM, they used MARINCO marine sockets:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NI38MG/

Might not be a bad idea to consider replacing the cable going from the socket into the charger too. It’s a heavy duty IEC “computer power cord” - just cut the male NEMA 5-15 (“Edison”) end off and strip it back to screw the wires into the terminals on the MARINCO plug.