[bennelson]

Hey Folks,

It's getting cold around here, which means I now actually want my garage as a place to store vehicles.

I don't have a basement or other place to use as a workshop. That means that all my experiments/projects/storage go on in my uninsulated, detached, two-car garage.

Right now, I have enough room on the one side of the garage to park my Electric Geo Metro.

The other side of the garage is filled with tools, workbench, misc equipment, and my GE ElecTrak electric riding lawn mower.

My question is: What to do with my ElecTrak for the winter?

I need space in the garage, but I also don't want the mower to get getting snowed on, rusting out, and freezing the batteries.

The mower is currently running on 6 12V flooded deep cycle batteries. (two strings of 36V.) I have individual 12, 1.5 amp chargers, one on each battery.

In my area, it stays below freezing pretty much all winter.

So, what do I do? Keep the ElecTrak in the garage? Move it behind the garage and tarp it? Remove the batteries for the winter? If I do, where do I put the batteries? Leave it on charge the whole time?

Let me know your ideas.

PS - for the life of me, I can't remember what I did with it last winter!