RE: (ET) Using Homelite appliances on Elec-Trak

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

Umm... those thinking about using 18 or 12 V tools on the ET...

The connector is available.  If you want to use it off 36V, all you need 
to do is add a light bulb in series...  I don't know what the current on 
the Homelight is, but essentially you add a resistance such that (in the 
case of 18V) half the voltage drop is across the light bulb; it has the 
same resistance as the drill, weedeater, whatever.  It doubles the load, 
but I can't imagine anyone drilling until the ET ran down.

Larry Elie


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[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu]On Behalf Of Dave & Deb
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: (ET) Using Homelite appliances on Elec-Trak


I have a 32v drill motor that came with my second e-trac.  the cord is
huge it must be 10awg wire in there at least.  For that reason I'm going
with a rotary inverter and 110v tools.  they're more plentiful and the
wiring can smaller and lighter.
just my 2 cents...
Dave

> True, thus I consider them to be "light duty" tools. Still, they are
> quite handy; we'll see how they last.
>
> What I would really like is a nice little 36 volt DC motor to retrofit
> all these 110 volt appliances. And a DC rated contactor system.
>
> Chris
>
>
> David Roden (Akron OH USA) wrote:
>
>> On 26 Jun 2004 at 15:35, Chris Zach wrote:
>>
>>
>>>These
>>>devices used a 1ah or so battery pack (12 1.2 volt AA size NiCDs) so
>>> they are not going to suck down a 100+ah set of T105's unless you're
>>> running around all day with them (in which case you really need to
>>> think for awhile about this: These are not heavy duty tools).
>>
>>
>> I'd echo that caution.  I haven't seen these tools, but I wouldn't be
>> surprised if they were designed to run about as long at a stretch as
>> the  battery's charge would last.  After that, they'd want a nice
>> cooldown period  while the battery was charging.
>>
>> I suspect that when run from an external power supply, many people
>> will be  tempted to keep using them until the smoke escapes from their
>> motors.  But I  could be wrong.
>>
>>
>> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
>> 1991 Solectria Force 144vac
>> 1991 Ford Escort Green/EV 128vdc
>> 1970 GE Elec-trak E15 36vdc
>> 1974 Avco New Idea 36vdc
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