Tom, Sorry about Roland, I enjoyed his posts. I'm in Albany OR and building EV's at Shift EV. Good luck with that classic car, keep us posted on your progress.
Gary Krysztopik On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tom Wilhelm via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hello all, > I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon. Roland was > my > favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood. > Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to > see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring > my parents home. He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He > was always kind about my mistakes....In 2006 he came out to visit and > insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came > to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and > labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane > component. As an adult, I frequently called on him regarding wiring > questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn, > also > a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building > power > supplies for amplifiers, etc. in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall > causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable > outcome. I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started > at the electron. > > Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven > it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as > Roland > Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches. > The car > sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack) > discharged > and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair > ball > 2?) of the > system needs constant power to retain its programming. My new shop will be > dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system > and > get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine. If it’s ok, > i’d > like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this > car > up and running again. > > Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland. > > Tom Wilhelm > > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at 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/20190929/552e4b41/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
