The secret to having time to work, is to work like 3 hours per day, and live in your mother-in-law's basement.
__________________ As I watch the old man walk on the sidewalk below my window, I think "Some day old man, I will be like you. So why not give me your coat?" Then I go downstairs to get his coat, but he's gone. Hey, maybe he was Zorro.
The secret to having time to work, is to work like 3 hours per day, and live in your mother-in-law's basement.
I must not get the secret... I work 0 hours per day (unless you count taking care of my Son), and still have no time to do anything, except those times that I do happen to have enough time to get something done, but not the proper funds/equipment/whatever necessary.
Oh, and I live in an apartment of my Father in Law's house.
This morning, I drove the Electro-Metro to drop my wife off for her car pool.
I have been working a lot lately, all farther away than EV range, so I really haven't had a chance to test the new batteries yet.
One battery seemed a bit off when I tested it before, so I checked it with a volt meter before leaving. Yep, it was down to 12.45V.
When I got back, I checked that battery and it was WAY LOW! (below 10.5V!!!)
As were TWO OTHER of the new AGM batteries.
I am manually recharging those three batteries right now with individual chargers, and we will see how they perform after that.
I would love to run the car at 144V. I still have a few things stopping me.
One is just mounting 12 batteries. I already have 1 in front, 5 in the back seat batt. box, and four across the trunk space. I still need two more to go to hit 144V. Looks like it's time to build a front battery rack under the hood!
I also picked up two faulty 72V chargers. They only "float-charge" right now. Apparently, these chargers are mounted the wrong direction in the vehicle they come in. Then the heat sinks don't work right and it melts the solder in a certain place on the board. Supposedly, if I crack them open and fix that solder joint, they should work fine again. Two of them together would charge a 144V pack.
