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Old 11-24-2016, 11:56 AM   #114 (permalink)
Stubby79
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Originally Posted by spdfrk View Post
I pretty much daily it in the summer for pleasure use. The front springs need to be cut as I'm generating some pretty serious lift at freeway speed with the current setup. Need a better heat setup for Canada. Thinking the quartz heater I put in isn't working well but not sure how much I can do about that since I ran it for the first time recently but bought it almost 8 years ago...
What's the 72v controller you're running? The old one looked to be a Kelly.

If you're not making heat from the battery to keep the cabin warm, perhaps some for of heater that has some thermal mass to it, like an oil filled radiator heater. Should give off heat for a while after it's turned off. You could do something similar if you had a coolant pump and some kind of insulated storage tank through the original heater core, were you looking for unusual methods. Otherwise it's back to sucking juice from your traction pack (or some other source).

Edit: Nevermind, your EValbum lists your controller.

Slowly poking through some more pics of yours...are you running with only 2 motor mounts? Were you only using 2 with the D&D motor?

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