<div>Joe,</div>
<div>Here is the site on the Bonham school conversion of a B2200. Might help some.</div>
<div>Mike Barkley at <a href="mailto:koibuff@yahoo.com">koibuff@yahoo.com</a> was the tech advisor on the project. He's always glad to share info. The truck is NiCad powered as we got Georgia Tech donation of new 6 volt NiCads.</div>
<div>John<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Joseph Kroesche <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@kroesche.org">joe@kroesche.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am a long-time lurker on this list and I am in the early stages of a conversion. It is a Mazda B2600 pickup. Everything is still in the planning stages, I have not ordered any parts or dismantled the truck yet. It was my intention at some point to attend a meeting and discuss my project with this group and solicit advice once I had things specified a little better.<br>
<br>Presently my plan is to use the ADC-4001 motor. For batteries I will use 40 cells of the thundersky 160Ah lithium iron phosphate.<br><br>Anyway, since the topic has come now, here is my web site about this project.<br>
<br><a href="http://b2600ev.org/" target="_blank">http://b2600ev.org/</a><br><br>Advice is welcome. You can send me a private message or post a comment on the site. Our group really wants to attempt to make our own motor controller and that is what is really holding me up at the moment. I have a good idea of what the controller electronics needs to look like, but am now bogged down in the tediousness of actually doing a real schematic and board layout. If there is someone who wants to join this project in the role of doing the schematics and board layout, then send me a note.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Joe Kroesche<br><br><br>On Feb 1, 2010, at 09:57 , Aaron Choate wrote:<br><br>> John,<br>><br>> I think you have some excellent points here. We used to have many more open garages than we are in the past year.<br>
><br>> Guys, if you are working on cars in the Austin area, you have people who would love to come help out floating around on this list. Just send an email when you plan on working on something and let people know.<br>
><br>> If it makes sense to do a more formal beginning to end club project approach, I would be glad to help with that, but I can't be the project coordinator.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Aaron<br>><br>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:02 AM, John Brecher <<a href="mailto:jlbrecher@gmail.com">jlbrecher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> So, show me the Detroit "big Iron" EV store. Surely you don't think all this flurry of hype means you will be able to soon buy something.<br>
> Maybe everyone has lost sight of what EAA is. It isn't to market but rather the share info on how to build and drive EV's. I find since coming down from Dallas that there is more interest here in "selling product" rather than "doing things". I don't know if you have any projects going here. In Dallas we were sponsoring 1 lawn tractor with RL Turner HS, 1 Ranger P/U at Plano HS, 1 Metro at Richardson HS, 1 Ford 8N farm tractor at Bonham HS. Last year we sponsored a Mazda B-2200 P/U and solar charging array at Bonham HS. We had three members do "first drives" last year.<br>
> Maybe a refocus of direction is in order. Maybe I bring a new perspective of direction. If not, I will ride into the sunset.<br>> John Brecher<br>><br>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:49 PM, The Mullins <<a href="mailto:ckmullins@earthlink.net">ckmullins@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> When I first discovered this forum it was mostly about EV conversion concerns. The nuts and bolts, as it were.<br>><br>> Now it’s about EV events and news from the auto industry.<br>><br>><br>> This starting me thinking that maybe, just maybe, interest in converting ICE cars to electric is fading. If the big manufacturers star selling cheap, reliable EVs, then what is the incentive to convert?<br>
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