The 1985 S-10 Blazer I had with a 132V (22 x T145) PbSO4 wet cell pack, tractor-ed up our mountainous roads to the 2000' summit in 2nd gear at about 20 to 35mph (depending on how tight the curves were). The Blazer had a 9" AdvancedDC motor and Auburn C600 controller. Battery amps shown on my link-10 e-meter ran from 200 to 300+ DC depending on the grade when climbing from Saratoga, CA to Skyline summit. Here's a map http://goo.gl/maps/mHZD4
My Blazer weighed ~2tons. I had the lowest gear ration differential, and a 4 speed manual transmission. When I would get adventuresome up in that region, I would use 1st gear on the most severe parts of China Grade Rd. (had portions that were quite steep). Climbing in 1st gear was no problem. Here's a map http://goo.gl/maps/hmyF3 {brucedp.150m.com} -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
