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I have a friend (whose background is strongly
electronics technician & currently circuit board design) who can fix almost
anything, and has rebuilt boat engines & car engines personally, installed
his own furnace, does plumbing, wiring, etc. We have similar
backgrounds.
He joked once, that "the way you fix an automatic
transmission is 1) you take it out of the vehicle, 2) you take $1000 out of your
bank account, 3) you give both to the transmission repair guy ! (& maybe
pray it does not cost more than $1000) 4) wait a week, 5)
reinstall.
Difference here is, we mostly don't have a specific
local someone to go to.
Fortunately, Elec-Traks are pretty simple (wiring
is just a 'rats nest' ), and electric motor, golf cart or lawn equipment repair
shops can help, & metal shops & a welder can
help.
As a few have mentioned - homemade circuit boards
are actually pretty easy, or that place in Canada is pretty cheap (change design
away from card edge connector though ! ).
This list will connect any & all effort
together - and successes can be duplicated.
Someone once told me "A good engineer can improve
on a previous design by 5 to 10%. The prior (if good) engineer can
probably look at the improvement and add another 5 to 10 % to that,
etc."
Hopefully, that applies here. Things will be
improved upon incrementally - Except of course, changing to AllTrax controller -
that is a pretty big change/improvement. And Rod's mower motors might be a
pretty good improvement - if we could find economical sources.
And any brake improvement would be a good thing (I
wish I had bought THAT from Bill).
Anyone have pictures of Bill's brake
improvement?
John
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