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While I'm waiting for BelkTronix to finish fine-tuning my controller (one of his component manufacturers revised a part, so he has to match that revision with his own) I goofed around and created a new logo for the blog. I was going for the '70s vibe with the text. Kinda makes you wanna cruise around and look for a Discotheque.
Paul Marshall has his car at Bob's Garage too. Check out the largest car conversion EVer:
Mr. Q worked on this Toyota MR2.
Lloyd is converting a Porsche in his spare time. Ok he has very little spare time, but is Jones-ing for an EV bad, so he's also going the pre-converted route and buying this electric Hyundai:
Lloyd helped me load 800 pounds of batteries onto the rear battery packs.
OK, he did most the heavy lifting, but I'm more of a management/supervisor type anyway.
Later, Paul couldn't wait another day for me to wire all of the battery management boards and resistors, so helped me cut, lug, and crimp cables on the condition we would make the wheels spin.
Bob, did the honors after spending ten minutes testing my batteries, checking my connections, and letting me know I connected the front pack to the rear pack wrong.
What happened was that I had labeled the 2 cables (1 red and 1 white) and forgot that the red was to go from Positive in the front pack to Negative in the rear, and the white from the negative connection in the front to positive in the rear. Well it took just 2 days for me to forget and I hooked up the red labeled cable in the rear to the positive and the white to negative. No sparks, but I wasn't getting the expected voltage.
Once we switched the cables around in the Anderson connector, we were good to go.
Bob did the honors of spin testing the motor and wheels. 1st with 4 of the batteries from the rear pack.
We weren't expecting that big of a spark, and didn't want to burn the motor out, so decided to lessen the voltage before connecting the jumper cables again.
Next we tried it with 24 Volts.
I'm pretty stoked, as before today I had not tested the motor. I had seen the rear shaft spin while rolling the car, but not via electrical power.
I think we helped raise some cash for kids who are homeless due to the recent fires.
Bob, Bill and Lisa were there.
EVAOSD is being asked to join in with San Diego Car Clubs to support fire victims and their families this weekend. We have two invitations for this Saturday, November 17, 2007. Please support these events with your electric-drive vehicle and/or your attendance.
Car Show to provide toys for burn victim children during the holidays. Ramona, CA; Fitness Center; 500 Main Street from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, 11/17/07
Car Club Charity Event from a home built in 1917 in Lemon Grove, CA; 8301 Mt Vernon St.; 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. by Woody Downing Fire Chief Retired and “You-Auto-Know” Dave Stall live radio broadcast www.kceoradio.com.
I urge you to support these outreach Car Shows to support our neighbors in need.
Also next weekend (Saturday, November 24, 2007) Dave Stall is donating a 2 hour Radio Show to discuss electric-drive and our up coming Electric Dragin’ EVent in January. Be sure to attend; bring you car or listen in to the show.More Info at www.ElectricDragin.com
The car needs a new clutch cable and some additional work that are beyond my BigLots tool set.
Good thing I made friends with a professional EV mechanic, Bob Van Gorder. I've posted about him and his electric Cony before. A few of the cars that will be at the Electric Dragin' EVent were converted by Bob including a Rolls Royce.
So, Keith (of LightningBugE fame), along with Joseph (Friendly Neighborhood Electric Car Dealer) helped me load up the EGP onto a trailer for the 20 mile trek to Ramona, CA. Luckily Bob's shop survived the recent firestorm, and he had an open bay available for me to work on the car there.
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