[ausev] Fredericksburg and JeepEV update

[Nick Viera]

Hi all,

I just wanted to let everyone know that my JeepEV and I won't be able to 
attend the Fredericksburg Renewable Energy roundup this year. Thanks to 
those who offered to help have it towed up there.

The Jeep's batteries are suffering pretty badly, the Trojan T-875s are 
miserable for this application. The Jeep's been out of commission for 
about a month because I removed two of the batteries to perform in-depth 
electrical testing and teardown analysis on them at my work to try to 
figure out in what ways they are or have failed.

In the mean time, my mom is in Waco picking up several new T-875s we 
found on Ebay, as none of the traditional battery distributors would 
sell us 8-Volt batteries unless we bought like 20 or more (and I keep 
hearing that Trojan is trying to phase out their 8-Volt battery line).

So hopefully the Jeep will be back on the road in a few days, but its 
range will still be severely limited (like 10 miles) by the dying pack. 
I've got my heart set on switching to AGMs like the Hawker Odysseys as 
soon as I can come up with the funds to do so. However the unfortunate 
reality is that my battery boxes won't fit AGMs well in their current 
configuration, and I'll probably have to upgrade my Zilla to a higher 
voltage model or put up with parallel battery strings, which I'd like to 
avoid.

Good Luck at Fredericksburg,

-- 
-Nick
1988 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 EV
http://Go.DriveEV.com/
http://www.ACEAA.org/
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