# Returning with My GEM
**URL:** https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459
**Category:** GEM Forum
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 10:04am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459 "2016-11-02T10:04:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@2008E2](https://community.electricforum.com/u/2008E2)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 10:04am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/1 "2016-11-02T10:04:55Z")
Hello all, after a sper busy couple months I was able to make it back online and read and develop a few new problems with my GEM.
1. I never did get my motor to stop vibrating the front of the car when letting off the accelerator. I found a 5hp motor off another GEM in the Junkyard and swapped it out. Vibration gone. But also lost a couple HP and MPH. Oh well.
2. GEM ran great in low but nothing in High. took off the 23 pin connector and smashed down all the little wire ends and WALA! everything works better when connected.
3. Been dropping batteries like flies lately. 3 batteries in 3 months. to my defense it had all Optima batteries in it and all were 5 years old. so I was down the first and found a good used Flooded one at the recycle yard. swapped it out. then another and got super lucky and found another used and it worked. then it got much worse I dropped 2 in one day. threw down the money and got 2 new Interstate group 27 RV batteries with 115hr. then she really screamed. I get about 6 miles now and get a turtle so I know one is going bad. I just picked up another Interstate. we don’t have any other options here in Cuba.
I learned today that the Delta Q charger will kill lead acid deep cycle batteries. SOOOO my big question is, what charger has everyone who went to standard batteries using?
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### Author:  [@Old\_Houseboater](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Old_Houseboater)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/2 "2016-11-02T14:46:31Z")
Reset the Dq to flooded algorithm. #13
It doesn’t kill them it undercharges them on the gel setting and they slowly die from sulfation. A flooded battery has to be charged at a high enough rate to bubble to stir the electrolyte,
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### Author:  [@Wahoowa](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Wahoowa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/3 "2016-11-05T08:52:18Z")
I need this to post link
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### Author:  [@Wahoowa](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Wahoowa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/4 "2016-11-05T08:53:11Z")
again just need a link
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### Author:  [@Wahoowa](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Wahoowa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 8:53am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/5 "2016-11-05T08:53:56Z")
I really hate all these forum rules
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### Author:  [@Wahoowa](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Wahoowa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/6 "2016-11-05T08:54:37Z")
only two more post. I apologize for my idiocy
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### Author:  [@Wahoowa](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Wahoowa)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2016, 8:55am UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/7 "2016-11-05T08:55:43Z")
Last one and were good!
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### Author:  [@Larry](https://community.electricforum.com/u/Larry)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/8 "2016-11-11T12:35:16Z")
Sort of like the old Burma Shave signs. (If you are too young to remember these, Google it!)
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### Author:  [@eSGEMColo](https://community.electricforum.com/u/eSGEMColo)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.electricforum.com/t/returning-with-my-gem/6459/9 "2016-11-11T12:58:59Z")
I guess I’m old because I remember Burma Shave signs and blind… I don’t see anything Wahoowa posted
welcome both Wahoowa and larryready to the forum
Bob