By carefully examining wear marks, the broken wire tie and deliberately chipped-away portions of the transmission, I am 99% certain I was able to reinstall the...
Hi Dave, That speed sensor and magnets are absolutely identical to the ones on my universal cruise control kit on my ICE Civic. Not just similar, but...
can you post a picture or at least describe exactly how the pickup coil is attached? It looks like a custom bracket has been used. Is it attached to an...
Jim, About a month or so ago I checked with Azure and they had the pads for the 97 front & rear and the "clickers", control boxes. The front and rear controls...
I haven't read the manual in question, but my thoughts on your comments: The first phase of the test is to gently drive the car until the batteries are...
Jim Coate
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Mar 2, 2007 3:59 pm
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... Very interesting. But there is no evidence that any speed control was ever installed on this car. There is only a data logger under the driver's seat. My...
... The pickup coil is bolted to an L-bracket that is held in place by one of the transmission case bolts. A bit of the aluminum ridge around the case has...
Thanks very much for the insights. I have access to a recently replaced pack of 13, and I have a hunch that there are just a few batteries that are bad, the...
Now that I have my Force running with a new set of Deka Dominator 8G27 batteries, I would like to estimate a safe range for daily driving without over-taxing...
Specs show 57 AH at the 1 hour rate. De rated 20% for battery life gives 45.6 AH useable. At 1.5 AH per mile that gives you a max range of about 30 miles in...
Is the 1-hr rate a good data point to use? And aren't there 11 X 57 AH = 627 AH for the whole pack? Of course I don't have a 300+ mile range, so I really...
11 batteries X 12 Volts X 57 AH = 7524 Watt-Hours 1.5 AH per mile = 11 X 12 Volts X 1.5 = 198 Watt-Hours per mile. 80% of 7524 is 6019. 6019 / 198 = 30 and...
Hi mike young here near rochester ny.I have limited electrical knowledge but love these cars. Just wondering what the correct amperage double pole breaker...
I have a 94 force hatchback with the 144 v and belt drive and twin bc 1000 chargers in the back.It is running and i am driving it daily.a yr or so ago the...
I do not have a Solectria yet. But I wondered about the efficiency of energy recovery thru the regenerative braking process. I understand that the amp-hour...
How are you defining efficiency? If you are looking at how much of the simple kinetic energy gets stored back into the batteries as electricity, the process...
... That's interesting. I just drove over 40 miles yesterday in our NiCd Force (156V) and it was still below 50Ah on the meter. As these are nominally 100Ah...
i dont know the % of efficiency but your number sounds right it is low. the nice thing is that you can switch it on and off depending on conditions. i like to...
Bill S: A few years ago I did just what you described with the KW-Hour meter in my Force. 10% is about right. But it also saves on brakes big time. With...
... That is 225 Wh/miles from the batteries per the E-meter. As I said, terrain is a major factor. While I could often drop down around 175 Wh/mile on the...
If you put multiple batteries in series, the voltages add. If you put multiple batteries in parallel, the amps and in turn amp-hours add. So, for a set of 11...
Jim Coate
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Mar 5, 2007 8:45 pm
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Boy, do I feel dumb. I was over-thinking the problem. Of course you are right! Now, as I get additional data from actual driving I will have a more ...
As I recall, the Solectria folks told me that a good battery pack on my 13-battery Force can get about 1.0Ah per mile if the driving is gentle. I always use...
I just drive my 97 Force, so far I haven't had to work on it. But, if someone is talking about serial and parrallel and volts/amps/watts, can anyone tell me...
All the batteries are being used all the time. If not you'd run into all sorts of battery balancing problems. Anyways the Econ, Normal, Power settings just...
My heater works intermittently. Has anybody sucessfully fixed this problem? I saw a few posts in the archives, but no actual solution. It is not the red...
My heater became intermittent so I had to repair it to keep the better half happy. On mine the heater element was mounted in the standard heater core...
... You might want to check all the gearbox mounting bushings. How many miles are on your Force? There have been some problems with early motor bearing...
Hey Mike do you know anything about the heater on the E10? I have used propane to keep warm when it got really cold otherwise I just dont use it and it doesnt ...
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