Some time ago the From field on the EVDL feed in my Mozilla Thunderbird
email client changed to "Electric Vehicle Discussion List". I'm finally
caught up more or less with the feed, but I don't believe I've seen a
solution. So I can't tell who posted without opening the email. After
scanning
A friend in the Philippines forwarded this image from her friend of a
Tesla S. The shot was taken in front of the MERALCO Theater, Ortigas,
Pasig City, which is near Manila. I wasn't aware of Teslas being in the
Philippines. Makes me wonder what the story is behind this particular
car. Imag
Hello All,
I'm just starting to consider renting a Tesla S for a week in November
around Thanksgiving.
It's a bit of a story as to why I'm thinking about it, but the short of
it is that coming to the SF Bay Area then will be a Filipina visitor
that I have come to know through a coworker who
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Would you still drive your car if the tailpipe came out of the steering wheel?
OR Lic. "LCTRNS"
From: Chuck Hursch
To: Electric Vehic
F, $25K or less after incentive, 400 ft. ft. of torque (why I relate it
to the fabled 409 of my youth). You can't build that at home. You lucky West
Coasters can buy it this summer. Don't make me come out there.
Pat
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From: Chuck Hursch
To: Electric Veh
Noticed in the paper a day or two ago that one of the SF Bay Area Nissan
dealers is offering Leaf leases for some-$3000 down and $99/mo. I think
Fed/state tax credits are still after that. A fellow EVDL'er allowed me
to drive his Leaf at the 2011 Stanford Rally - nice car, new tech...
althoug
Look like nice chargers. But it's not clear to me whether they would
work on a 96V pack. I saw some mention that it would charge at reduced
DC current, but page 41/47 (graph at the bottom) of
http://www.metricmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Manual_V1.791.pdf
leads me to believe that is no
Hi Cor,
Have you verified your cables don't have high resistance? I'd check
post-post and lug-lug resistances across all your battery cables. While
the hard bump could well have caused internal damage to one or more
batteries, it would be a good idea to check top-side also.
If you haven't
For the record...
My mother received a heart pacemaker last year. Naturally, I had some
concern about EMI if she was going to ride in my Voltsrabbit. I surfed
the internet looking for info, as well as talked with the pacemaker
manufacturer, and basically concluded the odds were low that ther
I was perusing the US Battery website when I noted that they have
reduced the recommended voltage set-points when charging flooded
deep-cycle batteries. Instead of the old 2.58 Vpc, it is now (as of
2011) 2.40 or 2.45 Vpc (depending on whether you are using 3-stage or
2-stage charging). I don
st monthly?
On 2/6/2013 2:47 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote:
More feedback from the guy that has an Elcon that gassed the batteries
a lot and ran warm at 120VAC.
He said this is the only charger he's had, at least for this EV, and I
think this is the only car-sized EV he's had. His roundtrip daily
o charge cycles back to back)? Or will
the charger just notice full charge the second time and shut off right
away? My current charger can be set so it will quickly charge up to 80%
and then just repeats the last phase for 3 hours. I do that monthly.
- Peter Flipsen Jr
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:5
ow what your charger does in a regular charge cycle. If it's
IU, then probably it will ramp down pretty quickly while holding the
constant voltage for three hours on that second charge, which I suppose
would be one way to equalize a pack.
- Peter Flipsen Jr
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013
to do so. And perhaps most interestingly, someone said that the charger
seemed to run rather hot at 120V with a slow-running fan, cooler at 240V
with the fan running faster - hmmm...
Chuck
On 1/28/2013 2:40 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote:
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the pointer. I sent some queries.
Chuck
On 1/28/2013 4:44 PM, Lee Hart wrote:
On 1/28/2013 4:54 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote:
I think the Elcon gets set up with IUI for floodies, with perhaps even a
fourth-stage trickle charge.
The final xxI in an IUI charge cycle is generally for equalization.
After the battery is nominally "full
On 1/28/2013 5:17 PM, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote:
[ref Elcon PFC-2500 thread]
My S10 Blazer EV (with a 132VDC pack of 6V T145s) had metal battery
racks from its creation which were grounded to the chassis. In the 15+
years I enjoyed the heck out of my EV conversion, charging and driving
anywh
outright refused to set it up the way he
asked them to. They told him - in almost as many words - that they knew
better than he what his batteries needed.
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2013, at 09:37 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote:
I have been on the fence regarding buying one of these Elcon chargers.
I would re
On 1/27/2013 11:30 AM, Lee Hart wrote:
On 1/26/2013 11:37 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote:
[snip]
I can't help you with the Elcon (never seen or tested one). But you are
correct that the proper charge voltage for old lead-acids goes down with
age. A new 6v battery ends its charge at about 7.5v
That's the kind of scene I want to avoid, and having the charger end up
as an expensive door-stop or being put up for sale at a loss. The Elcon
distributors seem to be very tight with their "programming tools". It
would seem either some adjustment knobs or a USB/computer reprogramming
feature
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the pointer. I sent some queries.
Chuck
On 1/26/2013 10:01 PM, SLPinfo.org wrote:
Chuck,
Have you searched the evalbum yet? A quick search under the category
"battery brand" yielded 160 hits for Elcon. By looking at the first couple
of pages I found the following folks
I have been on the fence regarding buying one of these Elcon chargers.
I would really like to know how they behave regarding aging flooded
lead-acid batteries of the 6V variety. The lack of real answers from
the charger vendors isn't really going to cut it. I've gotten no answer
or answers li
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