Re: (ET) Mower deck back online

[Jay Donnaway <jray3 aol com>]

 Congrats Chris, this post reminds me that you are one of the proud, the 
few, the flooded Nicad Users!  My workhorse E14 is still using 30 of the 
bb600 cells I acquired in 2004, which were decade-old military surplus a 
the time.Have you found a good solution to the KOH misting beyond regular 
cell washing?  I tried the battery bags sold by Jim, but vibrations seemed 
to wear holes in the bottom of the bags and the mist got around anyway, so 
I just wound up with a sloppy mess that dissolved the POR-15 I had 
laboriously applied.  Where it didn't dissolve, it just peeled off in 
sheets!  
I want to continue using Nicads until their end of life.  So far, all my 
dead soldiers have been due to inter-cell shorts when I didn't wash the 
electrolyte off soon enough.  Otherwise, keep 'em watered and these things 
refuse to die!
Cheers, Jay Donnaway
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Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:02:38 -0500
From: Chris Z <czunits gmail com>
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Subject: (ET) Mower deck back online
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Spent the morning working on the mower deck, as I mentioned earlier one 
of the mounts had ripped out. I bought some 1 inch wide by 1/8 thick 
steel plate and after measuring it against the deck, cutting it with the 
cutting disc tool, then drilling out the holes I mounted it with bolts 
to smash the deck back into shape. Next week I'll snug them down the 
rest of the way and weld it to the deck.

With that out of the way I was able to get going and vacuum leaves. I 
can fill a 300 gallon bag on a charge now with all of the batteries set 
to 30 cells, and things seem to be working properly. Now charging at 
about 750 watts, which isn't bad.

C




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