Seth, You are correct, throwing the batteries in the bed is not a long term solution and isn't real safe. I used the S10 for a testbed of motor controls. My point is that you can get the EV running in minimal time and experiance driving 'YOUR' own conversion. This in my opinion is a tremendous confidence boost and gives you more incentive to finish the job right. Many hobbiest spend tremendous time engineering the vehicle just to get it running and many times become frustrated and just give up. Throwing the batteries in the bed and driving the vehicle gives the impatient person a real boost so they can finish the job. Rod
Seth Murray wrote: > Rod Hower wrote: > >> One of the biggest advantages for me was throwing the batteries in the >> bed >> with minimal restraint so I could drive it > > > I would recommend against this for safety reasons, even if you plan to > put them underneath later. if you don't plan to put them under later, > then you lose functionality of your truck > > >> You can then take the next step and put in a nice battery rack under >> the bed > > > do this right from the start > > >> The biggest pain in the neck of converting a vehicle in my opinion is >> creating >> battery racks and getting them all stuffed into the vehicle. > > > not really a pain for a pickup - that is one of its chief advantages. A > simple set of steel flatbar U's supporting the actual boxes is not that > hard to do. my dad and I had no trouble and we didn't have any > experience working with steel (we hired a welder for the installation > however) > > If anyone wants a good idea of what it takes to do an S-10 conversion, > go to my website. I kept a journal for the whole project and pretty > much everything is in there. There are also about 300 pictures from the > conversion process. Feel free to email me with any questions... > > > Seth > > > -- > QUESTION INTERNAL COMBUSTION > > My EV page, with lots of photos and a 25 page conversion journal. Check > it out! > http://members.fortunecity.com/electricityboy > > My EV Album page > http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/387.html > >
