| Owner | Joel Clemens | ||||||||
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| Location | Hamilton, Ontario Canada map | ||||||||
| Web/Email | WebPage | ||||||||
| Vehicle | 1989 Ford Ranger | ||||||||
| Motor | Advanced DC FB1 4001A Series Wound DC | ||||||||
| Drivetrain | 5 speed manual transmission clutchless coupler (self made) along with self-made adaptor plate. | ||||||||
| Controller | Logisystems 144SFFX This controller is good for 120-144VDC and can peak (if adjusted) to 550Amps | ||||||||
| Batteries | 12 sterling HA 140-520FR, 12.00 Volt, Lead-Acid, AGM the free Alphacells I had were too small, I picked up some huge AGM batteries for 60 bucks each! google HA140.pdf for the data sheet on these batteries. | ||||||||
| System Voltage | 144 Volts | ||||||||
| Charger | Quickcharge SCO14410 I replaced the below mentioned chargers with one big charger to simplify things. It runs at 120VAC and charges at 10A. It is pretty slow, but gets the job done. I also built my own balancers to limit the voltage on each battery so none of them get over-charged. | ||||||||
| Heater | electric ceramic heater installed into original heater core. | ||||||||
| DC/DC Converter | Iota DLS55 Got this off ebay | ||||||||
| Instrumentation | HAL effect transducer instead of shunt to measure current. LED bar graph to measure each battery | ||||||||
| Top Speed | 60 MPH (96 KPH) I have had this self driven up to 50mph, (80km/h). I went down a highway down a big hill and it went to 60mph(100km/h) on its own. I've tried exceeding 100km/h on level ground on a non-windy day, and it won't do it. :( | ||||||||
| Acceleration | At speeds above 50km/h (35m/h)Accelerates like a 20 year old pickup truck carrying a maximum payload. in other words, not impressive. great acceleration in 1st gear in speeds below 50/35 | ||||||||
| Range | 40 Miles (64 Kilometers) 40 mile range at 40 mph tested up to 54km. upon trip completion, lowest battery voltage was 12.2V (agm) (70% discharged?) | ||||||||
| Watt Hours/Mile | 506 Wh/Mile 1KWh of charging gets me 3-4Km (1.9-2.5 mi) this depends on how far I've driven and how hard. Whr/Km ranges from 250-380 or 315Whr/km average. (tracking on AC charging side) old notes: charger consumed 1.35 Kwh in a 2 hour charge after a 15km trip, upon returning home, left it plugged in over night, charger used 6.38kwh. total trip was 30km 258watts/km all city driving, some hills. upon a 54.5km trip, it required 13kwh to recharge again; this equates to 238.5Whr/km or 384Whr/mile It seems that the charger is more efficient when it is charging a more drained pack. will adjust when more data is collected (using p3 kill-a-watt) lets use the above 260WH/km, this was under the old odometer which was under counting by 0.92, this makes a higher value, which is 260/.92 = 282.6WH/Km or 454.7WH/Mi 3.5km/KWh | ||||||||
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| Seating Capacity | 3 adults | ||||||||
| Curb Weight | 4,034 Pounds (1,833 Kilograms) I finally got it weighed, but this was with me in the truck, I'm not sure how much I weight, but the GVWR is 4080lbs | ||||||||
| Tires | stock | ||||||||
| Conversion Time | 6 months (Should have been 2 months, but I have many excuses and reasons) | ||||||||
| Conversion Cost | 5556.38CAD not including the cost of the truck or batteries. total investment (including batteries, the truck and screw-ups not part of final vehicle) 7907.61 CAD | ||||||||
| Additional Features | ignition has been replaced with a giant lit green start button (enabled when key is put into run position) stock fuel pump disable switch is used as inertia switch to disable main contactor in the event of a collision tachometer made from 2 magnets and reed switch has been tested up to 6000rpm | ||||||||
| See my website for current status or to ask questions etc. (below is for my own reference) discovered error in speedometer, re-calibrated gear after calculating a 0.8 (-20%)error (100km/h on the meter was actually 80 km/h) so that suggests that there was the same error on the odometer, (originaly mileage is actually lower than stated) however, after fixing the gear, the speedometer is now correct, the odometer is now off by (1.09 or +9%) (reading is now lower instead of higher than actual) so that suggests an original odometer error of .92 (-8%) The odometer at the gear change was 233527.9, subtract 231,900 starting EV point: making a total apparent 1627.9kms however adjusting for error: 1497km actual however, to get my total EV miles, (KM), I need to keep the error intact so I can adjust without doubling the error, so my new starting point of EV miles will be past actual EV miles times the error rate that will be removed on future email EV miles. 1497*.92=1377.8 adjusted starting point = kms at gear correct - error'd past kms = 232150km = 144282miles **multiply evalbum's reported total EV miles by 1.09 to get actual miles traveled (stupid odometer) | |||||||||
1989 Ford Ranger
“Lead Zeppelin”
Last Updated 10-20-2009
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