Ah ha! Finally an app for my old prius batteries. They are bricks of 6 cells at something like 6 AH, but internally connected in series so yiu cannot make a 12v battery.. You can make an 8.4V or 16.8v battery, but not 12. But with 48v to play with, I guess I can use 5 bricks for 42v or maybe 6 for 50..4v.
And parallel bricks to get to the current I need. Though, I bet they have sensing at the 24 and 36v taps to control charging and those taps will not exist. Shucks. Bob On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 1:34 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many of the GE Elec-Trak electric lawn tractors from the 1970s are still > around and doing yeoman duty. Buying a clean used one should cost MUCH less > than $3000. Recently an acquaintance of mine from around here sold his ER8- > 36 small electric rider mower for $500 on EBAY. All it needed was new > batteries. > > The models to look for are probably the smaller, simpler ones: > > GE ER8-36 / Wheel Horse A-65 / New Idea R36 > Wheel Horse E-60, E-81 > GE E8 / New Idea EGT80 > GE E10 . New Idea EGT100 > > The larger models will also serve (the E15 seems to be the most common): > > GE E12 / E12M / New Idea EGT-120 > GE E14 / Wheel Horse B-145 > GE E15 / New Idea EGT-150 > GE E16 > GE E20 / Wheel Horse C-185 / New Idea EGT-200 > GE I5 > > If you're not in too much of a hurry, I suggest joining the Elec-Trak > discussion list, and watching for someone to put one up for sale. > > cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak > > I got an invalid certificate warning on that website just now. It seems OK, > but I'll ask on the list today. > > 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 > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Consultant: someone who borrows your watch, tells you what > time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it. > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
