It is cold you know, especially you Yankees and Canadians know, so I bought one of the oil filled heaters. I plug it in at night, in the back floorboard, turn it on low. When I get up in the morning the insides of the Saturn are nice and warm and stay that way until…
It has been cold like it always does this time of year but more so it seems ( especially with the economy and all). I drive the SS Saturn everyday to work and on weekends. Five degrees f in the morning has not stopped her. Snow, slush and rain either. Maybe lots of snow might…
Dave Koller is another EVer I have been in contact through email about using the original tachometer on the electric conversion job. He assembled an adjustable pulse generator board for me to try out and mailed it. Tonight I tried it out with much success! Next will be to build another board that accepts an…
I Borrowed The Dirt Track Scales from Richard Holmes, one of my mechanics. These are the same scales I weighed the Saturn before the conversion. See Measure Ride Height and Vehicle Weight . I had planned and even told people The Similarly Stimulated Saturn probably weights about 3000 pounds. I was wrong. The scales showed…
I gathered some input about this ‘factory tachometer’ issue today. From last weekend’s journal entry, email response, searching on the internet and a couple of phone conversations I have some info to add. I was able to access another Saturn with factory ICE and get reference tach signals. Dave Koller, who is working on a…
First let me say that the following discussion is what I have tried to do to make the original tachometer work in the SS Saturn EV. Up to this point it still does not work. But as Thomas Edison said “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ” Original Crank…
I have already done a page — or two on building the battery boxes but this entry is about testing an electric vehicle battery box to make sure there is air flow when charging and make sure no hydrogen is entering the passenger compartment. In the SS Saturn there are 4 battery boxes. Two in…
It has been an interesting year. Gas prices soaring then falling, housing bubble, the bailout fiasco, hydrogen generators installed on vehicles making HHO from water by electrolysis, elections, recession and the return and coming out of the electric car. I thing about history from the 1890’s to the 1910’s when the electric car looked like…
I tried some to compile this list to help in buying for someone or showing what is probably needed in the EV conversion world. Not complete but Unbiased because I am not selling anything. Tools Drill Press Crimping tool #4255-001 Cable/Wire Cutter Stripping Tool To4215 Battery filler To20400 Hydrometer…
The SS Saturn has installed in it eighteen 8 volt deep cycle golf cart batteries. They are rated at 150 ampere hour (this would be equal to a 200 ampere hour 6 volt battery in wattage ). This rating is based on a 20 hour discharge, so this means “How many amps can it sustain…