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Originally Posted by vpoppv
As far as the ForkenSwift budget, I just looked over the expenses: where do you think you could have trimmed the price?
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Ohh, interesting question.
I was just joking about overspending. But I bet there would have been ways to cut down.
Looking at the
ForkenSwift's cost list:
EG:
-$160 we really didn't need to spend the latest $160 on used batteries. The previous ones were delivering about 15-20 km comfortably. But the chance to buy up a relatively youthful pack (~2 years old!) doesn't come up often, and it increased range to 25-30 km comfortably in warm weather.
-$39.78 Could have done a zero cost ammeter.
-$25.00 Could have done a cheaper home made LED batt pack gauge, let's say half price
-$172.44 Could have skipped the cosmetic body & paint repairs
-$45.56 Ivan really didn't need to buy the "how to" books he got
So could have lopped $442.78 off the total! For a net of $554.82
