Re: (ET) New guy in town...

["Christopher Meier" <mr23 mn rr com>]

I put surplus Hawkers in a few years back.
Like David, I don't miss the floodeds.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <roden ald net>
To: "Discussion List Electrac tractor" <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: (ET) New guy in town...


> On 10 Feb 2004 at 12:55, Pieter Litchfield wrote:
>
> > Be sure you keep the plastic bags around the
> > batteries to prevent battery acid from eating its way through the boxes
too.
> > That seems to be a traditional problem.
>
> When I got my tractor almost 6 years ago, I had a bunch of 12-volt group
24
> East Penn gel batteries sitting around gathering dust, so I put 6 of 
> them,
> connected in series-parallel, to work in the tractor.  I figured they'd 
> do
for
> a couple of years.  When people asked about them, I said "they're OK, but
I'd
> be using golf car batteries if I hadn't had these on hand."
>
> Well, they're still doing great. ...
...
> If I were getting batteries just for the ET, I'd probably buy GC-2 size, 
> 6
> volt VRR batteries, rather than the 12 volters.
>
>
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA