>From previous postings, I know that Roland has an automatic transmission in >his conversion. He idles the motor around 500 rpm. He has a separate pot >that allows him to dial in the idle speed separate from the accelerator pedal.
I think he had to do something to fool the controller at startup. Otherwise, it would complain the pedal is depressed. If Roland doesn't chime in with more details, he h as described it very well in the archives. Mike On November 26, 2014 9:07:43 AM MST, John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >So, just what needs to be done to convert a vehicle with an Automatic >transmission? >Do you HAVE to "idle" the motor? (can a zilla do that?) >Or is there some other Not Impossibly Difficult way of dealing with it? >(Thinking of converting another truck - but pretty much all have >Automatic transmissions.) > >-- >Worlds only All Electric F-250 truck! >http://john.casadelgato.com/Electric-Vehicles/1995-Ford-F-250 >_______________________________________________ >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) _______________________________________________ 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)
