Successful 51 st Orbit of the sun

Thanks to the family for this great card as I head of on my 52 second, hopefully full orbit of the sun.

Now on with the show.

Yes I have my home made adapter plate ready in time for holidays

And the battery box to fit in the area where the fuel tank was. This a little different to the template I made this one holding 27 cells, the original box proved to difficult to make with such limited time and resource, I Know what your thinking, "work gets in the way of all fun thing".

Well almost finished

And what's this?

It's a 175 Amp 600 Volt quick disconnect Anderson Connector for my battery box, why?

Well I'm going to have a quick disconnect battery system so I can use the same pack on my ELECTRIC BOAT!

MMM Time for a mental health check!

Thank you very much Eric for bringing this little memento home for me from your trip tho the USA for:

2nd Annual Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention - EVCCON

September 26-30, 2012 - Cape Girardeau Missouri

So have an Electrifying Christmas and Happy new Year

Cheers, Rob

Box of joy

 This will hold 33 90 amp hour Batteries for 10.35 Kw strorage 

 

I need to make a battery box to fit in the space vacated by the fuel tank this means making a mock up and getting the dimensions right.

View under car with main support glued (welded) to brackets 

just waiting for quote on box to be made.

Cheers

WHY ISN'T THE BIKE FINISHED?????

Well it’s been a long time since the last post and time is always at a premium, two grand children have arrived, I have changed jobs and my son has written off his first car (he’s fine thankfully).

Well the annual fuel bill for calendar year 2011 was just over $7500!! The wife god bless her said "enough we need an electric car", music to my ears so the bike went on hold and the car is moving along quite well.

Here are some mug shots.... enjoy

Small Tardis of a car with room for 4 big people like me.

 Yes there's my baby in the back ground only needs batteries and a chain.

Extraction

Hole to fill

3 small pistons, 1 big electric motor, 4 x the toque hope Mr gearbox is up to it

Just glue this piece to that piece 

 The beginnings of a cheep adapter plate

$80 for the coupler however I will need to machine this

12 mm and 13 mm machined off the coupler and the the center of the "spider" machined out

 Shows motor in housing with top plate for mounting controller and the like, motor has double ended shaft, hoping to drive air conditioner pump

Here is the hot water system for the demister, a cylindrical heater as used on the barrel of an injection mold machine and a catch thank fro the local speed shop

Just another image of the heater

And on test, just boiling water for a coffee

  

Brackets for the battery box this is going where the fuel tank was

 Some idea of size

And they go here

Yes the creepy doll is watching Bye for now.

Short Youtube update

The small jobs are really the BIG jobs

Timber for the base of the battery box I think it may be close to being finished

Secured in 

Dome nuts

Finely the shunt arrives and mounted to the acrylic, I made up 2 BUS bars to connect the fuse with the shunt 

From the side 

Battery box bolted back into the frame with Pot box and main contactor 

Put 50mm lugs on the connectors to check cable won't interfear or fowl when in place

Here come the Parts

Great to get the new Sprockets Key way and Acrylic for mounting fuse and soon to arrive 300 amp shunt

Old sprockets, Rear 47 tooth front 14 tooth, New rear 56 front 11. Hold on I here you say, shouldn't the ratio be 6:1 ? Yes however these sprockets were standard sizes  the machine shop carry and just require the additional machining to fit the motor and rear wheel.

New acrylic to mount T class fuse and when it arrives, 300 amp shunt. This will place all of the ignition in the one spot making for compact / less wiring.

 Rear view

Just an extra little engine mounting.

The Waiting Game

Been a long time since the last post but I'm playing the waiting game, Waiting for "T" class fuse , DC shunt and having sprockets made. Well the T class fuse arrived today and hopefully the rest with in the next 10 days. But a small problem, did you see it? where does the chain run? Well I'll have to remake this piece.

Now for a relocation of the ignition key

 Thats the T class fuse next to the red button Thats a $68 insurance policy for the battery pack.

Now that's cable