It has been a few years since I worked with electric tractors, but here some links that may help-
http://evalbum.com/216 http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/renewables/tracpage.html http://www.renewables.com/Products/SolTracCrawler.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6jNajDSx9M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YmbFtJlZpU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqCdnHudxU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufLpGGf7TWs http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18420DF30176E5A2 Lots of electric tractor stuff on You Tube. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Thos True <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marco, > > I have been watching this thread with a fair amount of interest, as I have > an older Yanmar 187-D that I inherited from my parent's farm. It has only > 200 hours on it, but was plagued by constant issues with the safety > interconnects (mostly because it was never garaged, I believe). The power > plant is a 3 cylinder diesel, so we had planned on using a conventional 8" > advanced DC motor, or equivalent (thinking salvage from an old forklift- > possibly along with the industrial controller) Had planned to run it at > 48-72 volts using group 31 batteries (I have about a dozen left over from a > previous project), then swapping to lithiums when some older ones come > through that need to be re-purposed. Another thought that occurred to us > was to use an alltrax controller (inexpensive & robust) if the industrial > unit was not viable. > The tractor has been sitting as a future project that was initially set > aside when the economy took a dive, and stayed put as my Dad's health > declined (the plan was to do it as another one of our father-son projects). > The adc puts out about 20hp, but do not be confused by the rating, as the > torque is roughly equivalent to that of a small block V-8 (I have put a few > in car conversions that have performed well against nicely built street > machines!). > Over the past few months, I have been concentrating on cleaning out or > completing several of my unfinished projects, and have caught myself > looking wistfully at the tractor project that sits alongside my old > carport. My son has asked when we are going to do something with it, so I > am thinking that the spring is looking to be good for this idea. > I want to thank you for bringing the topic to this forum. > > -Tom True > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:36 AM, EVDL Administrator <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 16 Jan 2014 at 8:11, Ing. Marco Gaxiola wrote: > > > > > Actually I haven't thought about the batteries, range and > > > chargers, I've focused only in the motor issue. > > > > I recommend that you rather decide what kind of battery you need first. > > Choose on its ability to deliver power and operating time. Then, choose > > the > > motor and controller that suit the battery. > > > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > > EVDL Administrator > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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) > > > > > > > -- > Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is > merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140117/8f3b156b/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140118/eb7eeb06/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
