Re: (ET) Man this is a good snow....

[Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

On 1/23/2016 1:40 PM, stevesgroups verizon net wrote:
> I wanted to go out  again after another 9" or so but the snow started
> coming down really fast, so it was about 15" deep when I tried again.
> Got almost down to the bottom of the drive but it was really slow going.
> I got worried about battery power and tried to run back up the hill in
> the same track, which was filling in fast. Ended up ditching the blower
> to try to get the ET up and charged. Almost made it, but the path I had
> blown on the way down had about 12" of new snow already.  It is coming
> down really fast, and there is more to come! I'm sure we will top 30".

It is pretty crazy here as well, got about 6 inches of new snow between 
charges here. It's over the height of the intake chute at this point (20 
inches) and the new snow is just packing down the old making it like 
lead. So for the moment I'm down to just working on what I did this 
morning as opposed to new rows. It's ok, that's why I went out this 
morning when it was only 15 or so inches to blow the first tracks.

Had a bad moment though, on the top of the hill I lifted the blower, 
then didn't check to make sure it stopped lifting. Switch stuck, came 
down the hill, then found the blower was not going down. Cursed, checked 
the fuse, was hot and blown. Thank the universe when I upgraded to 36 
volts I derated the fuse to a 10 amp one instead of a 30. Trudged to 
shed, got new 10 amp fuse, lowered the lift, will check it out tomorrow.

> But all in all - the conversion works well and the ET continues to amaze
> me. I must have been out over 2 hours with the needle well into the red
> most of the time.

Yep, it's a pretty amazing little tractor. When I wrapped it up for the 
evening I patted the hood and said "that will do little pig, that will 
do..."

http://i.imgur.com/XXyNFDJ.jpg

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> -SteveS
> On 01/23/16, Christopher Zach<cz alembic crystel com> wrote:
> 2 feet of firm snow so far here in MD and snowing hard. In order to keep
> from having to do drift cutters I got out there this morning and ran the
> E20+Snowblower+90 BB600's up the driveway.
>
> It chewed right through everything in LL speed 1 and 2. The snow was at
> the top of the auger intake, at the top where the plows built a berm I
> had to do it in 2 steps with the lift. 36 volts to the lift runs fine....
>
> I'll have to post a video of it later this morning. Serious snow.
>
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