It has been a year since I built my All Electric Lead-Acid Super-Duper Save-The-Planet Hydrocarbon-Free Type III Fastback 72-volt Electric Eggplant, and now it's time to make it better-stronger-faster. We have the technology!
The 72-volt kit was, well, frankly, underwhelming. I have this recurrent waking vision of climbing the Kilimanjaro-like hill that I live on at 20 miles an hour, and getting rear-ended by a giant Cadillac SUV driving on East H Street at 70 mph, and getting drenched with 6 batteries worth of sulfuric acid at the scene.
Not a pretty picture that I paint.
SO...as always....MORE POWER is the answer! (grunt-grunt!)
I scrimped and saved and horse-traded and hustled all year, and I just pulled the trigger on a new kit.
http://wildernessev.net/
It's a 10-inch (YEAHbabyYEAH!!) series wound 144vdc motor, and I'll be running it on 10 batteries in the pack.
Size matters, (or so I'm told.)
Stay tuned...my winter-project is underway. The game is afoot, Watson!
AND...just made a deal for ten ACTUAL deep cycle batteries http://www.trojanbattery.com/...
(Yes, a 10-pack of Trojans for ME costs $2200. and weighs 820 pounds!)
New setting. Anyone can comment.
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