Electric 914 Progress Thread, (or, 'What Shannon Did Today') |
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Electric 914 Progress Thread, (or, 'What Shannon Did Today') |
sgomes |
Oct 8 2004, 05:42 PM
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Electric Member Group: Members Posts: 815 Joined: 6-May 04 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 2,029 |
After a lot of advice from this board and others I've decided that the endplay on the output flanges can be ignored for now. So..... Let's get this baby back on the road!!!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)
Here is the B.F.N. tranny mated to the motor. Yep, that's it. Hook two big fat wires to this thing and it goes! No F'n' ignition, valves, carbs, oil, cams, exhaust, etc..... Attached image(s) |
sgomes |
Oct 12 2004, 11:19 PM
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Electric Member Group: Members Posts: 815 Joined: 6-May 04 From: Campbell, CA Member No.: 2,029 |
Well, I've had another setback (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) Sometimes this I think this project is going to kill me.
rant mode I began the process of putting all the batteries in the car. The care and feeding of the batteries is everything to an electric car. You have to pay as much attention to it as you do with your timing or fuel injection in an ICE car. Without going into painful detail that I'm sure none of you care about, I'll just say that my battery vendor was not honest with me. All 20 batteries were supposed to be a matched set. Ok, maybe not "matched" per se but at least all made at the same time. I noticed right away that the date codes didn't match. I mentioned this to them and they said some kind of nonsense like, "well just right it down on the receipt and we'll come back to it if you have any early failures." I bought into that thinking well, at least it seems like he'll take responsibility if things go wrong. Tonight I measured the specific gravity of each cell in each battery. 60 cells!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) The specific gravity gives a measure of the state of charge. If they all had the same "born-on date" then they should all be pretty close. Yeah you guessed it. The batteries that had the October dates were great. The September dates were so so and the JULY dates were nearly dead. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) No big deal you say. Just charge up the dead ones and get going. Three problems: 1) I don't have a way of charging small groups so I have to do all of them or one at a time. 2) Batteries that have sit around for that long have sulphated a bit. Their capacity will be less than the others. 3) It's not what I F'ing paid for!!!! rant mode So the progress picture tonight is an empty battery box. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bs.gif) Attached image(s) |
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