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Picture from side after washing it for the first
time. Temporarily placed Electric Emblem over Blazer symbol on door
Picture under the hood with the batteries removed. The power
steering and brakes have been kept and are fully operational.
A beautiful Electic vehicle logo provided by Mike
Chancey who runs the EV Discussion List Photo Album
In the rear with the batteries removed. They were
just sitting here with no hold downs or enclosure at all.
An awesome 1/4 Steel Angle cage for the rear battery box
welded up by my brother in law.
The cage is sandwich mounted to the floor with
3/8" #8 bolts through the top 1/4" piece then the floor then a 1/4" piece
of flat steel that runs front to back and finally through a 3/8" steel
square tube the runs side to side. There are two tubes and three flat
peices in total sandwiching the cage into the back.
13/16" plywood box with a plexiglass top. Inside
is painted with multiple layers of truck bed liner. Exhaust inlet is a
tube going down between the seat and the back of the box. The outlet is
pictured on the left going down under the car to an exhaust blower which
is turned on when the charge port is opened. 1/4" metal holddowns across
top not pictured.
Closeup of the Rusco SC-180 120vac on board opportunity
charger and can-pulse unit. on their own mount beside the battery box.
The charge port is where the gas nozzle used to
be. On the bottom is a 20amp male inlet finally found at an electrical
supply house. On the top is an connector for the 240 volt off board charge
directly to the batteries. Currently I can only use one charger at a time.
Soon I'll replace the wires from the chargers to the batteries 1) because
they are only 8 gauge and can't support both charges, or a larger charger
for that matter. 2) because they are aluminum and everything else is
copper.
This is a picture of the lug end of my
1231C 120 Volt Curtis Controller. It's mounted on a thick aluminum
heatsink and has all the safety electronics that came with the vehicle.
Since I have added fuses to each battery boxes, a negative contactor, and
a circuit breaker.
The squirrel cage blower I mounted on the Curtis'
Heatsink to make sure it stays as cool as possible. It doesn't get much
normal airflow now and will get even less when I close in the front grille
to keep all the water out. This ended up not being enough for the hills. I
upgrade to a marine 4" inline blower that puts out ~250cfm and the
controller no longer goes into thermal cutout going up my hill
I'm currently adding pictures as I
work on stuff but if you have any requests just email me and I'll
take a pic and put it up as soon as I get a chance.
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