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  • About lou-ace
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    washougal, washington
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    EV conversion, music, outdoors
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    Registered Nurse

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  • Last Activity: 04-30-2013 11:08 PM
  • Join Date: 07-21-2009
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Posted 11-28-2010 at 11:22 PM by lou-ace Comments 1
Well, Well, Well. After about two years, and many excuses, I think I might have finally finished the project. Over the holidays (11-2010) I painstakingly placed and wired the 20 Crown battery # GC 225’s in the truck. These are 68 lb lead acid batteries @ $109 each (I lucked out with no core charge and free delivery), you do the math.
I placed 4 in the front compartment and the other 16 in the bed. The technical problems that I encountered were in figuring out how to mount the tie downs for...

Posted 11-07-2010 at 08:55 PM by lou-ace Comments 2
Update 11-07-2010

The gauges were a lot of work but worth it! My original idea was just to mount the amp meter, voltmeter, ect on top of the dashboard. But at the behest of a friend I DID take the dashboard apart to get at the instrument cluster, it wasn’t as bad as imagined it, after multiple configurations ( 4), I ended up with a very attractable presentation on the instrument cluster. My first Instrument Idea involved the adaptation of a digital volt meter as the pack...

Posted 10-25-2010 at 05:18 PM by lou-ace Comments 0
Materials are everything! As my parts have arrived in good condition, I have progressed from selecting, purchasing to installing the electronics for my conversion (phase 3). My next step was to create a shelf within the motor compartment. Thinking of light material I chose 1X2 pine boards as shelving material. After installing them to the plastic fenders it soon became obvious that this was unacceptable, as the platform was bouncy, weak and unstable. After some review, I chose the galvanized steel...

Posted 10-20-2010 at 10:52 PM by lou-ace Comments 0
Parts have arrived all in good shape. Today I mounted the switch box., connected the primary and secondary circuits to the controller , mounted shunt on the motor. And played around with the brake pump. The interesting part of working off of someone else’s wiring/ prefabricated parts is in reconfiguring the fit. Jr sent me most of the 2-0 gauge jumpers that he had used in his car but they weren’t quite right, but some did fit. The benefit of using someone else’s prebuilt stuff...

Posted 10-08-2010 at 05:48 PM by lou-ace Comments 0
Yipee, scored on the exact parts I wanted on Ebay. It was suspisiously like pre-ordained destiny the way I found my curtis 1231c controller listed on Ebay for a starting bid of $700. Further distiny occured when I privately e-mailed the seller ( I first tried to e-mail through ebay but of course their site was censored), and found out that he also had the zivan battery cahrger that I wanted, and controll box complete with 2 albright sw 200 contactors wired with relays and vacume pump for breaks,...
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Posted 03-20-2011 at 03:37 AM by Davetheliftie Davetheliftie is offline
Nice work, Lou-ace....
Posted 02-10-2011 at 09:42 AM by Lee Hart Lee Hart is offline
Nice job. I need to...
Posted 12-13-2010 at 05:36 AM by ElectriCar ElectriCar is offline
Very interesting - Make...
Posted 10-21-2010 at 12:51 PM by Dave Koller Dave Koller is offline
Ok guys since I can't...
Posted 10-17-2009 at 08:43 PM by lou-ace lou-ace is offline

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