Re: (ET) Chargers (and winch)

[David Brandt <ev_dave13 yahoo com>]

Living in Savannah, I don't have much use for a snowthrower :-)

...so I didn't think of that.  As far as mounting it diagonally, that may 
work.  I would be concerned about the cable and the rods that frame its 
opening on the winch itself wearing, but it seems like you could easily 
get some pieces like on the fairlead, and put them on those rods to 
prevent that.  Of course then it would all bunch up on one side of the 
drum.  Possibly a second fairlead close to the drum would help?

I think an alternative is to remove the original charger and mount the 
winch where it was, more or less.  Then you could cut a hole in the front 
casting for the cable to come out and put a fairlead in front of it.  It 
would depend on whether the height that it came out at would work for you, 
of course.

I put a bunch of other stuff up, but I don't have links yet.  You'd just 
have to look at the http://www.davesevs.com/E15restoration/ directory to 
see the names.  I also don't have links from one to the next or any sort 
of index page.

David Brandt


--- On Thu, 8/13/09, JoelParks <et jpjt net> wrote:

> From: JoelParks <et jpjt net>
> Subject: Re: (ET) Chargers (and winch)
> To: "David Brandt" <ev_dave13 yahoo com>
> Cc: "Mike Wallace" <metman glasgow-ky com>, elec-trak cosmos phy tufts 
> edu
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 12:29 AM
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> Nice write-up so far, Dave.
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> I put a winch with the same form-factor on my E-15, except
> I bolted it
> on the outside of the front casting.  I don't like
> the end sticking out
> past the side of the tractor either.
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> When I looked at your pictures I thought, 'why
> didn't I put my winch
> underneath like Dave's?'
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> Then I realized - besides the mower deck I use my winch to
> lift the
> snowblower and also the plow blade, and both of those
> require a
> sub-frame mount that the underneath position would
> interfere with.
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> But I wonder if there's a way to mount the winch
> diagonally, since
> you're using a fairlead?  Probably would be
> tricky, and still might
> interfere with the blower or plow bracket when in the up
> position.
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> Still I don't like the position on the front casting -
> I'm afraid it'll
> rip the casting right out of the tractor someday.  I
> still have
> fantasies about mounting it on the inside of the front
> casting, since
> with the Alltrax controller I was able to remove the big
> resistors
> above the charger, so there's room.  I'd have
> to cut a big hole in the
> sheet metal to let the end of the winch out....
> 
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> I also use a webbing strap like that on the original lift,
> instead of a
> steel wire rope on the winch. Trouble is, it wears out
> going through
> the 'pulley' on the the plow or on the snowblower
> that increases the
> mechanical advantage.  I suppose the winch is strong
> enough to lift the
> blower without going through the pulley, but then it would
> be moving
> too fast as it came up or went down.  
> 
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> Looking forward to the rest of the documentation
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> 
> best,
> 
> Joel
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> David Brandt wrote:
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>   OK, I put up one of the restoration albums I have
> been putting together at the following address:
> 
> http://www.davesevs.com/E15restoration/step%2014%20major%20assembly.mht
> 
> It's a single file webpage that is bare bones right
> now, and has a lot of steps outlined, but you can scroll
> through to see several details of the winch setup.
> 
> I will eventually put the whole thing out there on the web.
>  I noticed detailed chronicles like that are lacking at the
> moment.  But while I have it on all 4 wheels right now,
> I'm working on different ideas for the field control
> board.  I may change from the FW switch you can see in the
> pics.  After that, it's the armature control board and
> then I just need batteries.
> 
> David Brandt
> 
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> --- On Wed, 8/12/09, Mike Wallace <metman glasgow-ky com>
> wrote:
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>     From: Mike Wallace <metman glasgow-ky com>
> Subject: Re: (ET) Chargers (and winch)
> To: "David Brandt" <ev_dave13 yahoo com>
> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 3:12 AM
> David,
> 
> Any chance of showing us some pictures of your Gorilla
> winch set-up?
> 
> Mike in KY
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