[ausev] Agenda from Saturday's meeting

[Aaron Choate]

Let us know when you decide to try and do something.  I would like to come
and help.

Cheers,

Aaron Choate

On 7/11/06, mark witt <aztexan45 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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