RE: (ET) tiller lift

["Elie, Larry (L.D.)" <lelie ford com>]

I till about 2 acres of strawberries and raspberries with the ET.  A full 
charge does about 1.  BTW, an acre is about 212' square.  In your case, I 
wouldn't modify anything either.  The gain is probably quite modest; D to 
D converters are only 75% efficient, so the best I could hope for is 
minor.  But then, 10 minutes more tilling would be good for me.  I usually 
till top notch speed in LL or bottom or mid notch in L, in sand, and only 
3" deep for cultivation.  First tilling gets 5" deep first notch in LL.  I 
also use a cultivator in L or D1 on occasion, and that does nothing much 
to the batteries even though it is lifted at either end (it goes up quick 
and I'm running much faster) and am looking for a disc.  Disc's are heavy, 
but that would run fast too.

Larry Elie

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Dennis [mailto:wombat RealNS com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 5:09 PM
To: Elec-trak
Subject: (ET) tiller lift


All I use the e-12 for is tilling, about a 75 ft length row, kinda sandy
rocks mostly, I usually till to full depth in low gear and 2nd or 3rd
notch on speed control.  Haven't really noticed any excessive discharge
on lift batteries.  When I check (digital voltmeter) usually all are
within 3 to 5 hundredths volt after charging, don't equalize.

Battery set is either 5 or 6 years old and still does the whaole garden
on one charge (about 50 x 75 ft.)

wombat

Agree, can't see doing all the monkey work, run the way it was designed.