Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Ty Delaney via EV]

Rip Roland. I’m sorry for your loss and the loss to the community.

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> On Sep 30, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Peri Hartman via EV  wrote:
> 
> He would have been my favorite uncle, too :) Best of luck getting the car to 
> work and I hope you enjoy its uniqueness !
> Peri
> 
> -- Original Message --
> From: "Tom Wilhelm via EV" 
> To: ev@lists.evdl.org
> Cc: "Tom Wilhelm" 
> Sent: 28-Sep-19 9:40:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench
> 
>> Hello all,
>> I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon.  Roland was my
>> favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood.
>> Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to
>> see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring
>> my parents home.  He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He
>> was always kind about my mistakesIn 2006 he came out to visit and
>> insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came
>> to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and
>> labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane
>> component.   As an adult, I frequently called on him  regarding wiring
>> questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn, also
>> a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building power
>> supplies for amplifiers, etc.  in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall
>> causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable
>> outcome.  I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started
>> at the electron.
>> 
>> Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven
>> it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as
>> Roland
>> Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches.
>> The car
>> sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack)
>> discharged
>> and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair ball
>> 2?) of the
>> system needs constant power to retain its programming.  My new shop will be
>> dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system
>> and
>> get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine.  If it’s ok, i’d
>> like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this car
>> up and running again.
>> 
>> Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland.
>> 
>> Tom Wilhelm
>> 
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Peri Hartman via EV]

He would have been my favorite uncle, too :) Best of luck getting the 
car to work and I hope you enjoy its uniqueness !

Peri

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From: "Tom Wilhelm via EV" 
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Cc: "Tom Wilhelm" 
Sent: 28-Sep-19 9:40:48 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench


Hello all,
I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon.  Roland was my
favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood.
Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to
see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring
my parents home.  He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He
was always kind about my mistakesIn 2006 he came out to visit and
insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came
to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and
labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane
component.   As an adult, I frequently called on him  regarding wiring
questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn, also
a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building power
supplies for amplifiers, etc.  in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall
causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable
outcome.  I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started
at the electron.

Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven
it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as
Roland
Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches.
The car
sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack)
discharged
and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair ball
2?) of the
system needs constant power to retain its programming.  My new shop will be
dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system
and
get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine.  If it’s ok, i’d
like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this car
up and running again.

Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland.

Tom Wilhelm


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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Gary Krysztopik via EV]

Tom,

Sorry about Roland, I enjoyed his posts.  I'm in Albany OR and building
EV's at Shift EV.  Good luck with that classic car, keep us posted on your
progress.

Gary Krysztopik


On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 2:07 PM Tom Wilhelm via EV 
wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon.  Roland was
> my
> favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood.
> Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to
> see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring
> my parents home.  He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He
> was always kind about my mistakesIn 2006 he came out to visit and
> insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came
> to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and
> labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane
> component.   As an adult, I frequently called on him  regarding wiring
> questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn,
> also
> a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building
> power
> supplies for amplifiers, etc.  in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall
> causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable
> outcome.  I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started
> at the electron.
>
> Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven
> it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as
> Roland
> Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches.
> The car
> sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack)
> discharged
> and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair
> ball
> 2?) of the
> system needs constant power to retain its programming.  My new shop will be
> dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system
> and
> get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine.  If it’s ok,
> i’d
> like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this
> car
> up and running again.
>
> Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland.
>
> Tom Wilhelm
>
>
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Cor van de Water via EV]

Hi Tom,
Thanks for checking in.
Fire away, we probably can't help you with your uncle's car starting
sequence, but the actual designers of parts like the hairball are
occasionally on this list.
Great to keep a physical memory to your favorite uncle!
Cor.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 2:07 PM Tom Wilhelm via EV  wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon.  Roland was
> my
> favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood.
> Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to
> see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring
> my parents home.  He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He
> was always kind about my mistakesIn 2006 he came out to visit and
> insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came
> to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and
> labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane
> component.   As an adult, I frequently called on him  regarding wiring
> questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn,
> also
> a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building
> power
> supplies for amplifiers, etc.  in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall
> causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable
> outcome.  I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started
> at the electron.
>
> Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven
> it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as
> Roland
> Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches.
> The car
> sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack)
> discharged
> and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair
> ball
> 2?) of the
> system needs constant power to retain its programming.  My new shop will be
> dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system
> and
> get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine.  If it’s ok,
> i’d
> like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this
> car
> up and running again.
>
> Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland.
>
> Tom Wilhelm
>
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Tom Wilhelm via EV]

Hello all,
I am Roland Wiench’s nephew and I live in Hood River, Oregon.  Roland was my
favorite Uncle and we worked on many projects together in my childhood.
Roland was an electrician at an the Montana Air National Gaurd and I got to
see a lot of industrial projects as a young kid. I was his helper on wiring
my parents home.  He also taught me rigging, welding and construction. He
was always kind about my mistakesIn 2006 he came out to visit and
insisted in tidying up my circuit breaker panels before the inspector came
to sign off. The inspector was at a loss for words at the neatness and
labeling of the wires. Said he thought he was looking at an airplane
component.   As an adult, I frequently called on him  regarding wiring
questions about size, voltage drop service entrance for my house, barn, also
a 3-phase to single phase conversion of a monarch 10ee lathe, building power
supplies for amplifiers, etc.  in March 2018 Roland had a slip and fall
causing an epidural hemorrhage in his brain resulting in a non-survivable
outcome.  I sorely miss my uncle despite some of his answers that started 
at the electron.

Roland willed his car to me and it is sitting in my yard. I have driven
it about a mile after I picked it up. It took me a good hour to start it as
Roland
Had told me it would be difficult to steal due to the amount of switches.
The car 
sat over the winter and the 12 volt battery (not main battery pack)
discharged
and now it won’t start despite a new battery. I believe the brain (hair ball
2?) of the
system needs constant power to retain its programming.  My new shop will be
dried in this month and I hope to move the car in and sort out the system
and
get it running. I know he drove it every day rain or shine.  If it’s ok, i’d
like to ask some of you questions when the time comes about getting this car
up and running again.

Thanks so much for the kind words about Roland.

Tom Wilhelm


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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Buddy Mills via EV]

I too have increase my knowledge via the list serve and a few direct email 
conversation with Roland 

I believe Roland fits the Albert Pike quote:
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for 
others and the world remains and is immortal."


Buddy Mills
buddymi...@cox.net

Look mom, no gas. www.evalbum.com/2887

 
Disclaimer:  No animals were harmed or killed in the process of writing this 
email.  Any stories to the contrary are, for the most part, either fictional or 
greatly exaggerated.






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From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Suhas Malghan via EV
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 6:45 PM
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Cc: Suhas Malghan 
Subject: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

Add me to the long list of people who will miss Roland Wiench’s posts.  I 
enjoyed hearing about his robust approach to engineering informed by data 
collection built around his daily drive. The way he described it, his EV had a 
switch for everything; all failure modes were addressed, regardless of how 
remote their occurrence. It appears he lived a long, satisfying life and I’m 
glad he posted to this list. 

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[EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Suhas Malghan via EV]

Add me to the long list of people who will miss Roland Wiench’s posts.  I 
enjoyed hearing about his robust approach to engineering informed by data 
collection built around his daily drive. The way he described it, his EV had a 
switch for everything; all failure modes were addressed, regardless of how 
remote their occurrence. It appears he lived a long, satisfying life and I’m 
glad he posted to this list. 

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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Ty Delaney via EV]

Wow, I am almost always just a listener here, but I sincerely remember Roland’s 
posts :-( RIP

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> On Aug 20, 2018, at 6:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV  
> wrote:
> 
> If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts 
> by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post, 
> about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several 
> times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.  
> 
> You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL 
> library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
> 
> I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while, 
> so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on 
> the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.
> 
> Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel 
> Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for his Renault-
> based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook and 
> cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large American 
> cars too.
> 
> Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at one 
> time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf modules, 
> which must have significantly reduced the weight.  
> 
> You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:
> 
> http://evalbum.com/470
> 
> -
> 
> https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench
> 
> Roland Eugene Wiench
> September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)
> 
> Born on Sept. 4, 1936 on Friday at 11:45 AM, I came out facing North in 
> Dickinson, North Dakota, in the hospital 400 feet from our home. Made it 
> home for lunch at 12 noon.
> 
> My father, an electrical engineer, took me down to his electrical laboratory 
> (I called it a dungeon). At the age of 8, he taught me basic electricity. My 
> first project was a dog repellant that was placed in the garden. As a dog 
> came into the garden, I turned on a switch that tickled his feet at a real 
> low voltage. The dog stood up on his two back feet and tiptoed through the 
> tulips, dancing the jitterbug. Later, I made an overhead electrical trolley 
> using an erector set with the clotheslines as the conductors. I forgot to 
> turn off the power and the laundry lady did the jitterbug too.
> 
> I attended St. Patrick´s grade school and Assumption Abbey high school in 
> North Dakota. I also attended the College of Great Falls, Montana.
> 
> I enlisted in the Navy in 1955 as flight, radar controller, and navigator 
> for carriers in the Atlantic. After studying aviation electronics 
> engineering, I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Great Falls. Meanwhile I was 
> employed as an electrical technician, then electrical supervisor at MANG 
> (Montana Air National Guard).
> 
> After serving in The Navy, USAF, and MANG I was honorably discharged as 
> Master Sergeant in 1989.
> 
> In 1976 I received a grant and a prototype electric car from Electric Fuel 
> Propulsion of Troy, Michigan. Since 1989 I have worked on the science of 
> improvement of the electrical vehicle.
> 
> =
> 
> While Roland remained a bachelor, many nieces and nephews survive. To some 
> he was an Uncle and to others, because he lived with us during our 
> childhood, Roland was an Uncle-Brother. Roland was predeceased by parents 
> Frank and Clementine Wiench; brothers and their wives: Francis (Marilyn) 
> Wiench and Alcuin (Annie) Wiench; sisters and their husbands: Bernice (Paul) 
> Wilhelm and Beatrice Hall.
> 
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Lee Hart via EV]

EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:

If you've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
by Roland Wiench... I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
the 16th of March this year.


I am deeply saddened to hear of Roland's passing. He was a real EV 
pioneer! I don't think I've ever run across anyone with more 
determination and will to succeed. I always wanted to get out to meet 
him in person, and see his beloved El Camino.


Roland was not a man to take halfway measures. He did things THOROUGHLY! 
I think he had more controls in his EV than the cockpit of a 747 
jetliner, and more safety backup systems than a nuclear power plant.


If you needed to know how to solve a problem so it would never ever 
return again, he was the guy to talk to. He took the belt-and-suspenders 
approach to a whole new level. He was an absolute fountain of knowledge 
on the industrial-strength approach to things. We have indeed lost a 
priceless pioneer of EV history.


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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Alan Arrison via EV]

I wonder what will happen to his EV?
It would be ashamed to just scrap it.

Al

On 8/23/2018 4:49 PM, Evan Tuer via EV wrote:

That's sad news. I always got a kick out of reading about his one-of-kind
EV and the engineering that he put into it.
He seemed like a good guy, always willing to share his knowledge.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:30 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Evan Tuer via EV]

That's sad news. I always got a kick out of reading about his one-of-kind
EV and the engineering that he put into it.
He seemed like a good guy, always willing to share his knowledge.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:30 PM EVDL Administrator via EV <
ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:

> If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading
> posts
> by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first
> post,
> about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted
> several
> times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.
>
> You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an
> EVDL
> library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
>
> I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
> so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
> the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.
>
> Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel
> Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for his
> Renault-
> based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook and
> cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large American
> cars too.
>
> Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at one
> time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf modules,
> which must have significantly reduced the weight.
>
> You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:
>
> http://evalbum.com/470
>
> -
>
> https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench
>
> Roland Eugene Wiench
> September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)
>
> Born on Sept. 4, 1936 on Friday at 11:45 AM, I came out facing North in
> Dickinson, North Dakota, in the hospital 400 feet from our home. Made it
> home for lunch at 12 noon.
>
> My father, an electrical engineer, took me down to his electrical
> laboratory
> (I called it a dungeon). At the age of 8, he taught me basic electricity.
> My
> first project was a dog repellant that was placed in the garden. As a dog
> came into the garden, I turned on a switch that tickled his feet at a real
> low voltage. The dog stood up on his two back feet and tiptoed through the
> tulips, dancing the jitterbug. Later, I made an overhead electrical
> trolley
> using an erector set with the clotheslines as the conductors. I forgot to
> turn off the power and the laundry lady did the jitterbug too.
>
> I attended St. Patrick´s grade school and Assumption Abbey high school in
> North Dakota. I also attended the College of Great Falls, Montana.
>
> I enlisted in the Navy in 1955 as flight, radar controller, and navigator
> for carriers in the Atlantic. After studying aviation electronics
> engineering, I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Great Falls. Meanwhile I was
> employed as an electrical technician, then electrical supervisor at MANG
> (Montana Air National Guard).
>
> After serving in The Navy, USAF, and MANG I was honorably discharged as
> Master Sergeant in 1989.
>
> In 1976 I received a grant and a prototype electric car from Electric Fuel
> Propulsion of Troy, Michigan. Since 1989 I have worked on the science of
> improvement of the electrical vehicle.
>
> =
>
> While Roland remained a bachelor, many nieces and nephews survive. To some
> he was an Uncle and to others, because he lived with us during our
> childhood, Roland was an Uncle-Brother. Roland was predeceased by parents
> Frank and Clementine Wiench; brothers and their wives: Francis (Marilyn)
> Wiench and Alcuin (Annie) Wiench; sisters and their husbands: Bernice
> (Paul)
> Wilhelm and Beatrice Hall.
>
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[EVDL] Roland Wiench Converting EV's in Heaven

[mark hanson via EV]

Hi Folks.

 

I missed Roland's posts also, really interesting & informative.  I miss Bob
Rice's VW conversion details as well & meets at the EV races in Hagerstown
MD. I wish I could have sent Roland an EMG monitor as well.  I almost
croaked in 2011 when I had an AFIB mini-stroke and Lewis-Gale Hospital in
Salem VA gave me anti-hallucinatory drugs instead of brain clot busting
blood thinners.   Life is short - drive more EV's!

 

Mark

 

 

Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:23:47 -0700

From: Gail Lucas 

To: ev@lists.evdl.org

Subject: Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

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David,

 

What sad news. I noticed that Roland hadn't posted anything recently but
thought he was probably busy with one of his projects. I have quite a few of
his old messages, including one from 2007 in which he carefully explained
how to spray some stuff on one of my chargers to reduce the noise it was
making. Lee then added info to Roland's. Two of the list members whose
knowledge I have valued for many years. Roland also posted information I
found very interesting, and saved, about his energy efficient house. We have
lost one of our EVDL assets.

 

Gail

 

On 8/20/2018 3:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:

> If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading 

> posts by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His 

> first post, about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  

> He posted several times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in
May of 2017.

> 

> You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an 

> EVDL library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html

> 

> I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a 

> while, so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland 

> passed away on the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.

> 

> Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric 

> Fuel Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for 

> his Renault- based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and 

> R10s), every nook and cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he 

> converted several large American cars too.

> 

> Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at 

> one time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf 

> modules, which must have significantly reduced the weight.

> 

> You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:

> 

> http://evalbum.com/470

> 

 

 

Have a renewable energy day,

 

Mark

 

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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Gail Lucas via EV]

David,

What sad news. I noticed that Roland hadn't posted anything recently but 
thought he was probably busy with one of his projects. I have quite a 
few of his old messages, including one from 2007 in which he carefully 
explained how to spray some stuff on one of my chargers to reduce the 
noise it was making. Lee then added info to Roland's. Two of the list 
members whose knowledge I have valued for many years. Roland also posted 
information I found very interesting, and saved, about his energy 
efficient house. We have lost one of our EVDL assets.


Gail

On 8/20/2018 3:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:

If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post,
about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several
times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.

You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL
library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html

I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.

Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel
Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for his Renault-
based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook and
cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large American
cars too.

Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at one
time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf modules,
which must have significantly reduced the weight.

You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:

http://evalbum.com/470

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https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench

Roland Eugene Wiench
September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)

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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Gary Krysztopik via EV]

I wondered the same, thanks for letting us know.  He was a major
contributor and helped a lot of people.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Rod Hower via EV  wrote:

> Roland was a good man that posted many useful tips to people on the EVDL.
> RIP!  https://s3.amazonaws.com/CFSV2/obituaries/photos/3706/
> 563356/5afb090786012.gif
>
>
> On Monday, August 20, 2018 8:26 PM, Alan Arrison via EV <
> ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
>
>
>  Roland always answered newbie questions that he had probably answered
> many times before.
>
> Rest in  peace Roland.
>
> Al
>
>
> On 8/20/2018 6:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
> > If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading
> posts
> > by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first
> post,
> > about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted
> several
> > times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.
> >
> > You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an
> EVDL
> > library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
> >
> > I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a
> while,
> > so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away
> on
> > the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.
> >
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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Rod Hower via EV]

Roland was a good man that posted many useful tips to people on the EVDL.  RIP! 
 https://s3.amazonaws.com/CFSV2/obituaries/photos/3706/563356/5afb090786012.gif
 

On Monday, August 20, 2018 8:26 PM, Alan Arrison via EV  
wrote:
 

 Roland always answered newbie questions that he had probably answered 
many times before.

Rest in  peace Roland.

Al


On 8/20/2018 6:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
> If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
> by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post,
> about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several
> times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.
>
> You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL
> library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
>
> I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
> so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
> the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.
>

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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[David Chapman via EV]

Yep, remember him well. Our conversations, his informative posts and his very 
kind attitude toward newbies was a tribute to his character. Sorry to hear he 
passed. Since my heart attack (thanks for the dietary advice Bob, LOL) I have 
not been as active on the EVDL as in the past; been too busy doing my thing. I 
have often wondered how many of the "old guard" have passed un-lamented. RIP 
Roland. 


"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt “We 
reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes 
 I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer 
wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after 
seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain 
agreed with such a view.” - Aldo Leopold 

On Monday, August 20, 2018, 5:26:16 PM MST, Alan Arrison via EV 
 wrote:  
 
 Roland always answered newbie questions that he had probably answered 
many times before.

Rest in  peace Roland.

Al


On 8/20/2018 6:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
> If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
> by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post,
> about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several
> times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.
>
> You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL
> library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
>
> I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
> so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
> the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.
>

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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Alan Arrison via EV]

Roland always answered newbie questions that he had probably answered 
many times before.


Rest in  peace Roland.

Al


On 8/20/2018 6:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:

If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post,
about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several
times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.

You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL
library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html

I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.



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Re: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

[Peri Hartman via EV]

I was wondering the same. David, I'm so glad you researched this and 
found out. Roland was very knowledgeable and always had a practical 
answer at hand. Like Bob Rice, he is noticeably missed.

Peri


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From: "EVDL Administrator via EV" 
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Cc: "EVDL Administrator" 
Sent: 20-Aug-18 3:29:26 PM
Subject: [EVDL] Roland Wiench

If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading 
posts
by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first 
post,
about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted 
several

times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.

You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an 
EVDL

library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html

I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a 
while,
so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away 
on

the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.

Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel
Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for his 
Renault-
based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook 
and
cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large 
American

cars too.

Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at 
one
time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf 
modules,

which must have significantly reduced the weight.

You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:

http://evalbum.com/470

-

https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench

Roland Eugene Wiench
September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)

Born on Sept. 4, 1936 on Friday at 11:45 AM, I came out facing North in
Dickinson, North Dakota, in the hospital 400 feet from our home. Made 
it

home for lunch at 12 noon.

My father, an electrical engineer, took me down to his electrical 
laboratory
(I called it a dungeon). At the age of 8, he taught me basic 
electricity. My
first project was a dog repellant that was placed in the garden. As a 
dog
came into the garden, I turned on a switch that tickled his feet at a 
real
low voltage. The dog stood up on his two back feet and tiptoed through 
the
tulips, dancing the jitterbug. Later, I made an overhead electrical 
trolley
using an erector set with the clotheslines as the conductors. I forgot 
to

turn off the power and the laundry lady did the jitterbug too.

I attended St. Patrick´s grade school and Assumption Abbey high school 
in

North Dakota. I also attended the College of Great Falls, Montana.

I enlisted in the Navy in 1955 as flight, radar controller, and 
navigator

for carriers in the Atlantic. After studying aviation electronics
engineering, I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Great Falls. Meanwhile I 
was
employed as an electrical technician, then electrical supervisor at 
MANG

(Montana Air National Guard).

After serving in The Navy, USAF, and MANG I was honorably discharged as
Master Sergeant in 1989.

In 1976 I received a grant and a prototype electric car from Electric 
Fuel
Propulsion of Troy, Michigan. Since 1989 I have worked on the science 
of

improvement of the electrical vehicle.

=

While Roland remained a bachelor, many nieces and nephews survive. To 
some

he was an Uncle and to others, because he lived with us during our
childhood, Roland was an Uncle-Brother. Roland was predeceased by 
parents
Frank and Clementine Wiench; brothers and their wives: Francis 
(Marilyn)
Wiench and Alcuin (Annie) Wiench; sisters and their husbands: Bernice 
(Paul)

Wilhelm and Beatrice Hall.

David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
EVDL Administrator

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[EVDL] Roland Wiench

[EVDL Administrator via EV]

If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts 
by Roland Wiench.  He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100.  His first post, 
about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003.  He posted several 
times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.  

You can read many of his posts in the archive.  He's also quoted in an EVDL 
library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html

I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while, 
so I did some investigation.  I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on 
the 16th of March this year.  The obituary is quoted below.

Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel 
Propulsion in Michigan.  Aronson is probably best remembered for his Renault-
based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook and 
cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large American 
cars too.

Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at one 
time weighed over 3.5 tons.  Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf modules, 
which must have significantly reduced the weight.  

You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:

http://evalbum.com/470

-

https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench

Roland Eugene Wiench
September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)

Born on Sept. 4, 1936 on Friday at 11:45 AM, I came out facing North in 
Dickinson, North Dakota, in the hospital 400 feet from our home. Made it 
home for lunch at 12 noon.

My father, an electrical engineer, took me down to his electrical laboratory 
(I called it a dungeon). At the age of 8, he taught me basic electricity. My 
first project was a dog repellant that was placed in the garden. As a dog 
came into the garden, I turned on a switch that tickled his feet at a real 
low voltage. The dog stood up on his two back feet and tiptoed through the 
tulips, dancing the jitterbug. Later, I made an overhead electrical trolley 
using an erector set with the clotheslines as the conductors. I forgot to 
turn off the power and the laundry lady did the jitterbug too.

I attended St. Patrick´s grade school and Assumption Abbey high school in 
North Dakota. I also attended the College of Great Falls, Montana.

I enlisted in the Navy in 1955 as flight, radar controller, and navigator 
for carriers in the Atlantic. After studying aviation electronics 
engineering, I worked for Boeing Aircraft in Great Falls. Meanwhile I was 
employed as an electrical technician, then electrical supervisor at MANG 
(Montana Air National Guard).

After serving in The Navy, USAF, and MANG I was honorably discharged as 
Master Sergeant in 1989.

In 1976 I received a grant and a prototype electric car from Electric Fuel 
Propulsion of Troy, Michigan. Since 1989 I have worked on the science of 
improvement of the electrical vehicle.

=

While Roland remained a bachelor, many nieces and nephews survive. To some 
he was an Uncle and to others, because he lived with us during our 
childhood, Roland was an Uncle-Brother. Roland was predeceased by parents 
Frank and Clementine Wiench; brothers and their wives: Francis (Marilyn) 
Wiench and Alcuin (Annie) Wiench; sisters and their husbands: Bernice (Paul) 
Wilhelm and Beatrice Hall.

David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
EVDL Administrator

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