Believe it or not that's how I came to buy an Elec-trak, i.e., I was
looking for an alternative to the toys that I knew wouldn't work in my deep
grass sloping yard. My EV had been under water and I was afraid of
the coarseness of the original control scheme anyway, so I substituted a
"Scoota" controller from
http://www.4qd.co.uk/ . >From the
kids' perspective it's a major success, but from my
perspective it's a supervision nightmare! I.e., I didn't
realize that I was creating a "toy" that could push over my garage if the
kids weren't careful. So I think your idea of starting with
something smaller and lighter is GOOD...Bob
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"SolidTech" <SolidTech qwest net> 6/25/2002 1:18:36 PM
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All,
Hoping for some thoughts on feasibility (and
refinement) of the idea of
making a "better than retail" kid car. I
know there's the plastic electric
vehicles you can buy at your local
toy/department store. They always seem a
bit pricy for the mostly
plastic thing they are. So... I was contemplating
a simple
go-cart style vehicle with 1/2/3 batteries, a controller, and
an
appropriate motor. I was checking in my shop and I have a 50 VDC
nominal
motor (that came out of a 9-track computer tape drive made by DEC)
and I see
there's various controllers on eBay. Questions: Is that
electric motor
(Ametek brand) even appropriate for the task? What
would be a reasonable
number/size of batteries? What would be
appropriate for a controller?
thoughts?
- - joe
Joseph
Rock
E-15 & MagnaTrac Hydro 5000 in
Colorado