Maybe you can claim on warranty? Also, I noticed the EGO Community forums are not accessible now. They were working earlier today. The message I see now is unclear about whether it is a maintenance outage or a decommissioning where the forum is not coming back. There was decent info in those forums.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 16:04 Robert Bruninga <bruni...@usna.edu> wrote: > I have the 7.5Ah EGO self driving and used to rave about it and take it to > talks about Energy. > But then my battery (or charger) died and I cannot face a $350 battery for > a > $450 mower. > I suspect the charger maybe. I have manually charged the cells while > checking all the voltages and they seem to be OK . > > But in the mower or charger they only show the RED light. > System is maybe 3 years old? > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: EV <ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org> On Behalf Of Haudy Kazemi via EV > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 3:55 PM > To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> > Cc: Haudy Kazemi <kaze0...@umn.edu> > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Ego vs Greenworks? > > No experience with Stihl electrics., but I do have 2-3 years experience > using 2 EGO manual drive mowers (and 2 blowers). They're much better than > the previous Pb-acid mower and corded mowers I have used. > > The 7.5 Ah 56v battery (14s3p, using 2.5Ah 18650 cells) (14 x 4.0v = 56v > nominal, 14x4.2=58.8 peak) is best for the mower, especially if facing > thick > grass as that is a high C rate scenario. The 5.0 Ah battery (14s2p, 2.5Ah > cells) works fine for smaller yards or thinner grass. 4.0 Ah batteries > (14s2p, 2.0Ah cells), 2.0 Ah (14s1p, 2.0Ah cells), and 2.5 Ah (14s1p, 2.5Ah > cells) batteries also exist. > > Online searches indicate a 10.0Ah battery known as BA5600T also exists, at > least in Europe. I guess that may be 14s3p or 14s4p, respectively using > 3.3Ah or 2.5 Ah cells. There is a battery external physical dimensions size > limit in their mower and snowblower designs, possibly preventing 14s4p. > > It is unclear if there is a switch from 18650 to 21700 cells in the 10.0 Ah > unit. From the cell capacity ranges published here, it appears 3.3Ah+ > capacity 18650 cells exist, making a 14s3p 10.0Ah configuration possible. > https://www.dnkpower.com/teslas-mass-production-21700-battery/ > > A weakness in older EGO batteries is there is no state of charger indicator > until you are down to the last 15% when a light turns solid red. They have > added a gauge to new batteries. > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, 13:15 Denis Boutet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, any one have experience with Stihl? > > > > Denis > > > > Le 20-06-24 à 13 h 19, EVDL Administrator via EV a écrit : > > > I've owned a total of 4 E-mowers (not counting the Elec-traks) so > > > far > > since > > > 1994 - a B&D, two Yard Machines (MTD), and a Greenworks. > > > > > > The B&D lasted the longest, but I had to replace the motor and the > > wheels. > > > Eventually the replacement motor died too, and since the plastic > > > deck was starting to crack from age and hard use, I gave up on it. > > > But at least spare parts were mostly available, and usually at > > > reasonable prices. > > > > > > The MTDs' motors both failed too. The official factory motors were > > priced > > > over $300, more than the entire mowers cost, so the mowers were > > essentially > > > disposable. > > > > > > Probably the Greenworks will prove to be disposable too. It's a > > > cheap > > and > > > cheerful Chinese mower. > > > > > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > > > > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > > > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > > > > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > First they came for the journalists. 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