ARIENS AMP electric rider 34" lawn mower 916002 | eBay | | | | $350.00 | |
| | | | | ARIENS AMP electric rider 34" lawn mower 916002 | eBay The rider sat & needs batteries replaced. | | | This mower is listed on eBay, item 916002 at US$350 in Birmingham, AL with local pick up only. There's a lot of negative vibes about the Ariens Amp Rider, but ours has been doing well for a number of years. After destroying the third set of VRSLA batteries at US$600 a pop (probably due to FL heat), I switched to a half-module from a Volt. The voltage is lower, but the drop in voltage during use is much less and I'm able to complete a full mow and a bit more, while the VRSLA had to be charged three times to complete the yard. It's not my eBay post, but I felt it deserved a note. >From a design standpoint, it's a ridiculous arrangement. The electric motor >drives a hydrostatic transmission, with a cooling fan. It runs constantly and >makes far more noise than necessary and I'm sure the (lack of) efficiency of >the hydrostatic transmission doesn't help a bit. I suppose the engineers at >the company were/are familiar with such equipment and not so familiar with >motor controls. I feel that it would have been smarter to have appropriate >gearing without transmission and a decent motor control. I disabled the off-seat cut-off, the reverse travel cut-off and added a CycleAnalyst to keep an eye on things. I wasn't able to find a Volt half-module, so I bought a full one, some extra plates and threaded rod. Now I have battery one and battery two and alternate them for mowing. The balance connectors came with the module and pair up nicely with the charger I purchased. I get cells balanced to 0.01 volts according to the display on the charger. I hope someone finds this useful. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200330/f0fec475/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)
