Won the big Craftsman/Instructables contest!
 

My DIY Electric car with the experimental Hybrid kit on it came in first in the Craftsman tools contest on Instructables!
:D

Click for CONTEST RESULTS

If you look really close in the featured photograph, you can even see the Ecomodder sticker in the back window of the car!

Congrats ! Now put those tools to good use ! :thumbup:

Yeah !!
Power to the Eccomodders !

bennelson -

VINDICATION!

Does this mean you won $5K? Can I be your friend?

CarloSW2

Good for you!

I'm still waiting for the prize.

Originally, my understanding was that it was for a $5000 credit for Craftsman items, but it looks like it will actually be a Sears Gift Card.

I checked, and a Sears card is good at Sears, K-Mart, and Lands End.

Still not sure exactly what I will do with it.

What I really want is 5 grand in lithium batteries, electric motors, battery chargers, solar panels, LED arrays....... :rolleyes:

I'm going to have to triple-check all the fine print before I do anything!

you might be able to sell the gift card, or trade it on one of the online sites. Both options can give you cash at the rate of 80-90% of face value.

Congrats! Definitely well earned :thumbup:

Great news, congratulations on your success.

regards
Mech

Awesome ben! I'm sure you'll spend it on more eco stuff for sure. Talk about a return on investment!

Wonder how many AA Lithium batteries you could get for 5K ? Isn't that how Tesla motors burried all those kwh around the car.

Just imagine the look of the checkout person when they look in your cart !

Good idea Jason! You got me thinking:

You could buy a bunch of electric lawn mowers, and leaf vacuums, and chain saws, etc. and donate them to all the local veterans and retired folks? These use a fraction of the energy of most ICE powered -- and no gasoline or oil from foreign countries will be used...

If you could get RC batteries at sears, order about 2500 of them to use as a new car battery. Make another instructibles on it and see what sort of responce you get.

Congratulations...:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Nice job.

:)

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Hee hee. All of the Google ads on this thread right now are for Sears!

I did just get a shipping notification from INSTRUCTABLES that my prize is on the way!

My wife said she thought it would be funny if it showed up as a giant check. I assured her that it would be a card and a t-shirt.

Ads, what ads?
members do not see them + I run add block plus so they are gone for good :)

You should be clicking on random ones to support the site.

In the interest of full disclosure I run add block too.

Will not click on ads. I got a red star, aka I paid to help the site.

That's my thought too. Plus, I actually think that advertising is a very interesting art/science when it's done right.

I have a star too. It just happens to be green. It means I WORK for my membership. :thumbup:

You could say I work for mine, I moderate the wiki but they do not want to give me a nice green star.

A giant cheque made of coroplast ?! :D:p

That would be HILARIOUS! :thumbup:

Instant belly pan that you can really take to the bank!

Ahh so that's what that means, cool and thanks:)

:D Congrats on the Win... I am sure a few new tools would be helpfull in your updated video series where you tell us beginners what you did wrong first time around :p

seriously well earned you captured my intrest and that is why I joined the site. so you are to blame ha ha

I imagine that by this time next year you'll be zipping around in the Bennelson Supersport Hybrid; driven by a hundred cordless drills and a couple of chainsaws. :P

Hmmm....

A chainsaw/drill battery hybrid motorcycle...... :thumbup:

Yeah, that's a thought. Those Lithium drill paks are pretty hefty for rating, aren't they? I bet you could get a discount if you bought....250 of them.

"Hi, Sears? Yes, I'd like to order TWO PALLETS of cordless drills..."

Or, you could buy a BRAND NEW set of batteries for the Electro-Metro, and still have some left over!

Congrats on winning!

Congrats! Way cool, as they say.

...Congratulations!

...and, FWIW, Sears "owns" K-Mart (and Lands-End, too, I think).

I got my "prize pack" from Instructables today; a t-shirt, 3 stickers, 2 sew-on patches, and a tiny plastic robot!

Still not sure when the GRAND PRIZE will show up. I expect that may be coming directly from Sears corporate.

I did stop at the Sears store today, just to get ideas.
There was a stainless steel toolbox there that was very shiny, and may have my name on it.

There's also a Sears Auto Center in a separate building out in the parking lot of the mall. I wonder if they have aluminum rims for a Geo Metro? :rolleyes:

Seriously though, the Die Hard Platinum sounds like a pretty nice AGM battery. One issue that I have had with the original batteries I have in the Electro-Metro is that they are A LITTLE TOO LONG. In other Metro conversions, people fit 4 batteries longitudinally in the radiator area. Mine don't fit! I can only fit two there (and the other one only goes in and out by removing the head light!)

If I got 4 Die Hard Platinums, I could replace the one front battery with those four, increasing my system voltage from 72 to 108 volts. I would then charge those on a 48V charger and keep my original charger (which is still on the fritz right now....) for the back batteries.