Re: (ET) Hybrid Electrak?

[Max Hall <mhall maxmatic com>]

I have, and it worked just fine, but it was a pretty un-ET way to solve the range/run-time problem. Loud and smelly. And my old 4-stroke generator is as bad as any Briggs and Stratton 4-stroke... notorious.

I later did two things: 1) got a fresh string of batts, and 2) kept the old string... I added a "back porch" to my tractor, and ran the second string in parallel with the on-board batts. I'm west of Boston, and I moved a huge amount of snow on every charge with that rig. http://www.maxmatic.com/electrak.htm. Bitchin' traction addition, too.

I'm about to do the same thing to an E-20 with a plow... need more range/run-time, and better traction again.

Best of luck to all you ETers,

love those tractors!

-Max

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Banks, Michael J. <BanksM zhi com> wrote:

I have a 200’ driveway that is paved and flat, but here in New England we just got hit with 19” of snow.     The E12 tractor got about 3 feet out of the garage before it couldn’t go any farther.    I put the snow thrower on and I made it down the driveway and almost back to garage before my batteries didn’t have enough charge to throw snow.

 

Has anybody tried hooking a gas powered generator up to the tractor to extend its range for extreme cases like this?    

 

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