Re: (ET) charger

[Jeremy Gagliardi com]

Tom Coate wrote:
> 
> Jeremy -
> 
> Good to hear of another ET alive and well in the area.  (I'm across the
> river from you.)

Leesburg, huh?  I had no idea another E-20 was so close.  They seem to
be spread around pretty thin these days.  I was fortunate enough to have
2 whole sets of accessories.  My father used to have 2, one for home in
Potomac, Md and one for the vacation house in the Poconos, Pa.  However,
the Md tractor went in for service one day and upon first run, the
batteries under the seat allegedly "blew up" and he never replaced it. 
Instead, he just brought all the Md accessories up to Pa.  That means, I
now have 2 each of "back porch" box, mower deck, snow plow, hedge
trimmer (long and short), and chain saw.  I have one blue cart and one
front "shovel?" or lifter of some sort.

> As long as you are sticking with flooded batteries, I would no give up on
> the built in charger too quickly.

Eh, I figure newer is better.  The guy at Batteries Plus in Rockville
said the chargers I bought should work fine with the Golf Cart batteries
he sold me.

> If your problem is with the diodes and/or
> the capacitor, these are easily diagnosable and replaceable, and readily
> available through Bill Gunn.  If the transformer is blown then things get
> more difficult.  I've gotten mine all repaired and added in one of Harry
> Landis's controllers.  Really makes life easy -- every time I'm done 
> working
> I just plug the tractor in and walk away.

I figure I can rig some connector wires up where I need them and snake
them to the outside of the tractor.  Then I would hook up the 3 chargers
together on a power strip, and just hook up the six wires with quick
connects when it's time to charge.

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