(ET) E15 running, no speed 7 but I can deal....

[Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

Well, this evening I finished fixing the wiring on the E15, and it now 
runs properly. Turns out that without card 4, speeds 3 and up equal no 
field=very fast tractor and super high currents. Now it drives more 
normally.

Speed 7 however is just not there. I think I may have to adjust the 
speed wheel or something, anyone else ever have this problem? It's not 
too big of a deal, just slightly odd.

Now I get to figure out where to go from here. I have what is left of 
the charger in the shed, the wood base is 1000% rotted to the core, so 
I'm removing the parts and will use what's left as a new template for 
new wood. Fortunately I have plenty of birch plywood, the scroll saw and 
the plunge router should be able to get the thing cut out and the bolt 
holes counter-sunk. Once that's in place I can sit down and put the lift 
frame and motor back in, then replace the junker batteries with a single 
string of BB600's up front.

Then what? I still need at least the rear battery box, and possibly 
fenders, if I can't cut them off the old wreckage. One of the foot 
boards is very badly rusted, and of course there is my repair work on 
the rear that I would trust for myself but not to sell it to someone else.

I guess I could use it as a donkey-tractor, drive around the yard with 
the cart so I can leave the mower on the E20 in the summer and the 
blower on it in the winter. Or I could mount the blower to this and keep 
the E20 in the shed where it's nice and warm.

Hm.

Chris