AC-G on electric.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

http://www.flyingbeet.com/electricg/

[Eugene]

Interesting article.

Not to pick this guy apart. G's sell for over $1000-. I'm not sure how many G's are sitting in wood lots waiting to be discovered. Much less purchasing two G's, one running, for under $1000- for both. I suppose it could happen, just not in this area.

The author listed approximately $2723.00 in parts for the conversion. The author listed required machining done by Niekamp (?) but didn't list a cost.

My accounting, the electric tractor costs $3222.94 plus machine work. Labor not accounted for.

Interesting. I'm going to reread the article to find out the running time on his batteries.

Eugene

[WKPoor]

I agree Eugene, Allis G's command alot of MOOOOOla just about anywhere. Last March over at King's auction the cheapest parts tractor sold for $1500.00, running ones went for $3000.00. Those must have been some tree huggers bent on not burning fossil fuels.

I aquired an electric Golf cart this yr. Batteries were sick and I was hesitant to buy new ones if the performance wasn't going to be worth the $500.00 price tag for them. The dealer assured me I would be happy. He was right! The thing will run forever even in the most demanding conditions. I've never found out just how long they will go as I charge about every 10-15 actual running hrs. However I'm sure the tractor would put an even heavier load on the batteries and that mod didn't have as many as my cart has.

[Eugene]

Quote from the article. "A conservative life-span for lead-acid batteries in an electric car is 3 years. But there are folks running alternative vehicles like our tractor that have been using the same batteries for over 10 years. A car is generally run more often and regularly and to a much greater extent of discharge. Altough we use our tractors often, we are generally only going a mile or so at a time then re-charging them, so they don't get permanently exhausted as fast." unquote.

I just crunched some numbers trying to figure out the economics of operating this battery powered tractor. The cost is somewhere between 20 cents and 26 cents to recharge the batteries if the batteries are depleted to 80% - connected to commercial power. That's a rough estimate based upon a whole lot of unknowns.

Low gear at 1 mph would give the cited run time of one or maybe two hours.

Just thinking - that's usually how I get into trouble.

Eugene

[WKPoor]

I was told cart batts would last anywhere from 5-8yrs depending of coarse on type of service. I hope at least 5yrs as that still equals $100.00 a yr to operate.
There is one advantage with electric-They always start real easy and never need choked LOLOL