Re: [EVDL] Weatherproof boxes (Was: Juicebox)

2018-06-16 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> One of the mistakes folks make it to attempt to make the box completely > sealed. You really can't seal a box effectively without going to extreme > measures. Here's a really interesting video dealing with trying to seal bicycle hub motors. https://youtu.be/gwlbAJLzI_w?t=1242 It's a long

Re: [EVDL] Advice on new battery pack

2018-06-23 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> Reading thru the prior comments (which I really appreciate) I am starting to > wonder if I'm getting ahead of the cost curve. I think you're at an ideal time to buy used lithiums. You can get 16kw worth of Volt packs for under $2k without shopping around much or lucking out. There is

Re: [EVDL] Advice on new battery pack

2018-06-23 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> Where? http://car-part.com <-- From a junkyard/dealer. Find one near you else it's a pallet to ship. There's whole packs in there $1500-2000. Or Ebay. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub

Re: [EVDL] Charging load on the grid (corrected)

2018-07-27 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> I stand by my numbers when corrected to a house that leaves most of their > lights on all evening and assuming averqaeg 75 Watt incandescent bulbs > originally.. Which is some extreme outlier family who's electrical usage is literally 10x the average home. Ya gotta think, the crossover between

Re: [EVDL] Charging load on the grid (corrected)

2018-07-28 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> It's not that simple. There are huge variations, so the "average" doesn't > necessarily apply to all that many people That's exactly what standard deviation is for, to know the probability (or occurrence) of a given situation. A broadly spread dataset is different from a tightly grouped

Re: [EVDL] Charging load on the grid (corrected)

2018-07-28 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> My (many decades old) memory of statistics is that a standard deviation > assumes a Normal distribution. I suspect that the distribution of how many > light are left on in a building is a long way away from normal. Well you're wrong. The graph is smooth and continuous. If you want to get

Re: [EVDL] Charging load on the grid (corrected)

2018-07-29 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> They're just measuring the total power used in the home; lighting > is not separated. I acknowledged that twice already. > So it says *nothing* about how many light are on in buildings. Correct. What it says is that 10 different things they did break out, and the total power used, follows a

Re: [EVDL] electriccarpartscompany.com?

2018-07-30 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
https://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105314 <-- Maybe someone trying to scam them or defame them or screwed up his cells and tried to blame them, but one guy says not to trust their batteries. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: [EVDL] Reposting, Still Need Help, 86 Year Old Uncle Still TryingAfter 34 Years to Get Bucket List GE EV1-B Based EV Car Running

2018-07-26 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> Cor, while your GE controller might well have had similar (or identical) > switch input requirements as the GE EV-1 SCR controller in question, it is > worth noting that your controller was *not* an EV-1. Wait, I had this backwards. I thought we *were* discussing the EV-1 vehicle, not the

Re: [EVDL] Reposting, Still Need Help, 86 Year Old Uncle Still TryingAfter 34 Years to Get Bucket List GE EV1-B Based EV Car Running

2018-07-26 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> The GE EV-1 SCR controller is quite similar to yours, but the SCR controller > in your pictures is *not* and EV-1 Hrm, okay. > (and possibly not a GE product ;^). It's definitely a GE. Transformer says GE right on it, and, other parts of the schematic say GE I'm sure. And I'm certain the

Re: [EVDL] Charging load on the grid (NOT)

2018-07-26 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> Remember this factoid. I'm all for saving energy and obviously I'm here so I'm passionate about EV use, but, it's also important to me to not treat this like some kind of religion. > Swapping out the average American home from Incandescent bulbs to LEDs saves > the same amount of power needed

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Performance modified Tesla-3 Track Record> That’s straight up nutty

2018-08-14 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
This is the least interesting thing Sasha has done. He put a Tesla drive unit into a Lotus Evora last year for a time-attack car. Smoked everyone in his class by 3 full seconds. Spectacular stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If09etyztl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4fGIoVMpM

[EVDL] Junk-Built Motorbike

2018-04-05 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
Hi everyone, I'm doing an electric conversion of a 1985 Honda Nightwing 750s motorbike. My goal originally was to build it entirely from garbage or unwanted items, and document/video the process and teach others how to overcome barriers to curiosity, like spare money, missing knowledge, etc. I've

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Microlino.ch e-Isetta (Urkel-mobile) r:133mi ts:56mph

2018-04-09 Thread Matt Awesome via EV
> http://autoweek.com/article/green-cars/isetta-coming-back-electric-car > The Isetta is coming back as an electric car I mean it sounds cool but I can't get this image out of my head: https://i.imgur.com/gQ3DhkL.png ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: