[ausev] Agenda from Saturday's meeting

[mark witt]

To Derek..I like your enthusiasm! I might be able to get the batteries by 
this weekend and the rest of the parts soon after. I would love to see this 
guys battery layout and I would be willing to pay a little extra for that as 
it would save time I'm sure.

   I'm ready to move ahead without official Ford help because I've waited so 
long and not much is happening! We could drop the pack in my garage and I 
have access to a pallet jack that could handle the weight (we could 
distribute the weight with some 4X4's etc.

I also have several Ranger EV manuals on a CD that will help greatly. I 
would not attempt this without some help from some of you who can actually 
read a schematic! I'll let you know what I find out on Tuesday and Wed. and 
maybe we can proceed. Thanks Mark W.

P.S...my 16 foot car hauler is ready to use if any one needs it for moving a 
vehicle. It's a standard 2" ball hitch with a 4 pin light conn. I've ordered 
a brake kit for it which should be here any day now. Also I have an electric 
winch I just haven't mounted it on the trailer yet.

>From: Derek Bridges <bridges at ieee.org>
>Reply-To: AustinEV announcements list <ausev at austinev.org>
>To: AustinEV announcements list <ausev at austinev.org>
>Subject: Re: [ausev] Agenda from Saturday's meeting
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:50:12 -0500
>
>All,
>
>     We have two weekends between now and the July 28 film opening. If we
>need to do some work on Farver's s car or Witt's Ranger, we should
>schedule a Saturday work session or two.
>     We talked about the resistor kit for connecting 12 Volt batteries to
>an 8 Volt monitoring system but we couldn't figure it out because it is
>just too simple. Two 12V batteries in series put out the same voltage as
>three 8 V batteries so you put three identical resistors across every
>two batteries and connect them to the monitoring system. We can do that
>with or without the official "Resistor Kit", although perhaps not in the
>next two weeks. Any takers?
>
>Derek Bridges
>
>
>Aaron Choate wrote:
> > Here is what we covered in Saturday's meeting.  If you have
> > additions/mods, please feel free to send them as replies to this email.
> > Aaron Choate
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > ---  Who Killed the Electric Car ---
> > The Austin opening for this film is July 28.  Mark Farver is working
> > to see
> > if he can secure tickets for club members as well as trying organize 
>some
> > sort of EV display opening night.  If you are able to bring your
> > vehicle or
> > are interested in manning a table in the theater lobby, please let
> > Mark or
> > me know.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
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