Re: (ET) Elec-trak Digest, Vol 11, Issue 189

["Pieter Litchfield" <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

I now have an e-15 with a bucket loader.  The bucket loader uses a big
electric motor to run the hydraulic pump. I am not sure what motor is used,
but I think it might be a small ET drive motor.  In any case, I often have
run the tractor and loader for fairly long periods (when I had fresh
batteries) with good results.  I suspect that two small motors ( with a
combined power of one large ET motor) plus 3 or 4 mower deck sized motors 
is
a manageable power drain, especially if the drive employs solid state
controllers. I wonder if the power load of an ET snow blower on an ET would
be more or less? 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Roden [mailto:etpost drmm net] 
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 11:27 PM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: Re: (ET) Elec-trak Digest, Vol 11, Issue 189

On 4 Nov 2013 at 18:38, Robert wrote:

> Pieter, you're talking a lot of batteries for two ET motors plus deck
drive. 

Could you explain this comment?  I don't see why you'd need any more than 
an
ET requires.  Depending on how much mowing you needed to do per charge, you
might be able to get by with 3 or 4 group 27 or 30 marine batteries.


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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