[ausev] electric Ranger pack conversion

[mark witt]

Ranger Witt here! Yes we have been having fun with the new batteries I must 
say. I had seen those conversions that were being done out west. I thought 
that I had posted a link to them way back but maybe not.
   Bottom line with my conversion is that I'm pretty much committed  to the 
pack that I have purchased and must endeavor to persevere as the man once 
said. I'm not thrilled that we haven't been able to get a perfect seal on 
the pack but I don't think it will be a deal buster in the end. I like the 
batteries alot but as Chris will attest we would love 'em if the pack case 
lid would have fit like it was before we touched a single bolt!
    With any luck I might still get a few pictures out of  my guy but not 
for sure. Thanks for all Austin EV folks that have helped on this project. 
I'm just waiting for some decent consistent weather to launch back into the 
truck again. Keep the faith!   Mark W.


>From: Christopher Robison <eeyore at phototropia.org>
>Reply-To: chris at chrisrobison.org,        AustinEV News Announcements and 
>General Discussion<ausev at austinev.org>
>To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion <ausev at austinev.org>
>Subject: [ausev] electric Ranger pack conversion
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:51:11 -0600
>
>This is interesting.  AustinEV member Mark Witt (who will hopefully pipe
>up here) is currently in the process of converting his OEM electric
>Ranger's battery pack. We'd been wrestling with this for several
>weekends before the cold weather and other events interrupted, and
>hadn't been able to get the lid shut with all the batteries and other
>components in place -- and this was before doing the battery wiring! We
>spoke over the phone to the guy from whom Mark bought the kit, and he
>didn't offer much advice besides "fiddle and cram". At the time, there
>were no pictures of the process online as I recall.
>
>Now with these pictures, we see one of these pack conversions
>successfully executed -- but with a different battery than Witt's using.
>I hope he didn't get sold the wrong thing...
>
>   --chris
>
>
>
>On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 16:57 -0800, Gil Dawson wrote:
> > http://southtownelanes.com/electric_pickups.html
> >
> > Here's a fellow, Lanny, in Eugene, Oregon who has converted several
> > no-longer-running 1998 Ford Ranger EVs from using their original 39
> > now-obsolete delphi 8-volt batteries, which are no longeer available
> > anywhere, to use 26 Trojan 12-volt batteries, which are readily
> > available, by fooling the original Ford controller with a resistor
> > tree cooked up by Jeff Thomas (http://EVBones.com) in Mesa, AZ.
> >
> > --Gil
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