Hi, My name is Al Lococo. I just joined the Florida EAA. I was a former member of the National EAA in the late 70's and early 80's when I converted my first EV which I now call EPT1 (Electric Pickup Truck one). At the time I lived in Wappingers Falls, NY.
http://www.lococo.org/Electric%20Truck/72%20Dat.htm Contrary to Shawn's post, I am from Winter Haven ;-). My recently completed vehicle is a 99 Ford Ranger which I call EPT2. http://www.lococo.org/Electric%20Truck/Truck.htm This page contains pictures and a link to my documentation and a video. The video is in DVD format. I am looking for someone to convert it to mpg format. My next addition to my truck will be to make the fuel gauge reflect the battery voltage in a form that is meaningful to the unsophisticated. You know full and empty. I want empty to be 144 Volts and full to be 155 Volts. The gauge has a 22 ohm to 145 ohm range on the input from the float in the old fuel tank. I want an opto coupler and something to invert the voltages between 144 and 155. I plan to do some tests to get started us a voltage divider using resistors. I think this will run the meter backwards rising from empty to full. Anyway if someone has solve this problem I am interested. I am also interested in comments criticism and suggestion concerning the choices I have made in my design and implementation. Cheers, Al Lococo _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
