Hi Folks.
I missed Roland's posts also, really interesting & informative. I miss Bob Rice's VW conversion details as well & meets at the EV races in Hagerstown MD. I wish I could have sent Roland an EMG monitor as well. I almost croaked in 2011 when I had an AFIB mini-stroke and Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem VA gave me anti-hallucinatory drugs instead of brain clot busting blood thinners. Life is short - drive more EV's! Mark Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:23:47 -0700 From: Gail Lucas <gaildlu...@earthlink.net> To: ev@lists.evdl.org Subject: Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench Message-ID: <e7052872-e0af-0d3b-09e8-16cec4b96...@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed David, What sad news. I noticed that Roland hadn't posted anything recently but thought he was probably busy with one of his projects. I have quite a few of his old messages, including one from 2007 in which he carefully explained how to spray some stuff on one of my chargers to reduce the noise it was making. Lee then added info to Roland's. Two of the list members whose knowledge I have valued for many years. Roland also posted information I found very interesting, and saved, about his energy efficient house. We have lost one of our EVDL assets. Gail On 8/20/2018 3:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading > posts by Roland Wiench. He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100. His > first post, about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003. > He posted several times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017. > > You can read many of his posts in the archive. He's also quoted in an > EVDL library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html > > I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a > while, so I did some investigation. I'm sad to report that Roland > passed away on the 16th of March this year. The obituary is quoted below. > > Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric > Fuel Propulsion in Michigan. Aronson is probably best remembered for > his Renault- based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and > R10s), every nook and cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he > converted several large American cars too. > > Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at > one time weighed over 3.5 tons. Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf > modules, which must have significantly reduced the weight. > > You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here: > > http://evalbum.com/470 > Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh FREE Solar EV Charging! ; http://www.WeatherLink.com/user/MarkHansonREEVA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180822/cff35769/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
