Re: [EVDL] Big, Honking Electric Snowblower: Feasible?

Jay wrote: > Buy the cheapest motor/controller you can find. In this link that Bruce sent: http://www.evalbum.com/3628 the guy is using a Manta brushed DC motor, with *no controller*, which seems about the cheapest controller you can get. Is it considered okay to hit a brushed DC motor

Re: [EVDL] Big, Honking Electric Snowblower: Feasible?

It's quite feasible, though the weight may be appreciable. You don't even have to convert if you don't want to. The GE Elec-trak lawn tractors built in the 1970s were sold with snow thrower attachments as an option, and many are still around. The snow thrower for the large-frame E12, E15,

Re: [EVDL] Big, Honking Electric Snowblower: Feasible?

1) There are several people who have made electric snow blower conversions, check out the evalbum. There are also a few commercial offerings (e.g. EGO snowblower

[EVDL] DIY: Big, 30+" Electric Snowblower project

Qualifier: being in Silicon Valley, CA (in July), please forgive my lack of living-with-snow experience (when I was a boy, it only snowed once in Sunnyvale, and it was so light/small an amount, it took all the snow gathered from a whole blocks of front lawns to make a smallish snowman. It was all

[EVDL] Big, Honking Electric Snowblower: Feasible?

We get lots of snow where I live. I'm often clearing a foot or more of snow using a 10.5 hp, 30-inch wide, 24-inch tall unit. I've recently been offered a similar unit with a blown engine, and I'm toying with the idea of trying to make it electric. It seems that battery electric snowblowers

Re: [EVDL] Weird Nissan Leaf behavior: 3rd charging lightblinks after new pack install: cold weather package...

Thank you, Cor. -- -Chris On July 7, 2017 11:50:56 PM CDT, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: >BTW, >You can immediately see it if you know what to look for: >left of the steering wheel are 3 black buttons. The middle one is the >timer override ("charge now") >and the button

[EVDL] EVLN: EV-newswire posts for 20170708

how ... the VW Group wants to integrate into its upcoming electric vehicles ... http://evdl.org/evln/ For all EVLN EV-newswire posts {brucedp.neocities.org} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EV-newswire-posts-for-20170708-tp468