Recent content by redscott

I finally got enough wiring done to attempt a test of the systems and I think I'm having a battery problem. I have two 12v batts and a 24v controller. I was tryng to figure out which wires on the hand throttle to use and wasn't getting any response at all so I start looking for bad wires. I...

corn oil is not a solution. That's PART of the reason for rising food prices. Virtually all of the factory-foods in the supermarket are based on "high-fructose" corn syrup, the same basis as the corporate-lobbied ethanol. A better idea for bio-diesel are all those cheaply-grown crops that are...

In fact, Big Oil Texas Inc is already trying to invest heavily in alternative energies - although there is evidence to support the argument that it's just "green washing", i.e. making money off of the FAD of going green. One of the biggest obstacles right now is purely infrastructure - the high...

I just found them at Northern Arizona Wind & Sun http://store.solar-electric.com/index.html who specialize in all your solar panel application needs. five reds for $2.25 five blacks for $2.25 ten terminals for $4.00 total with shipping $16.50 via mailbox Seems pretty good for industrial...

Thanks guys - I'll go google Anderson Powerpoles & see how much they cost

Got the motor mounted on the Trike & drivetrain sorted out. Got the battery rack built and a removable battery box (makes the trike lighter so a crippled old fart can load it in a pickup easier). Looking for a cable connector to run the big wires between the battery box and the junction box...

So the major malfunction is diverting food crops into fuel. Or, more to the point, diverting arable food-crop land into fuel crop land use. One suggestion is to focus biofuel reseach into crops that grow where food crops won't. Ta-Da!! Cactus! We have millions of square miles of prickly pear...

I've been ordering my parts from Scooter Support http://www.scootersupport.com/scooterparts.htm They're located here in the Houston Tx area so I save slightly on shipping. I might save more if he actually ran a retail store where I could just go in there & buy instead of just online...

The song says "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" - National media just don't bother to look at what's going down in the grassroots, and that's true for more than just EVs. That's not to say we won't jump on the bandwagon when the Fat Suits invent a new battery - Sure! Show me the money.

Mother Earth News 1503 SW 42nd St Topeka Kansas 66609 Ref: “Racing To A Revolution” Dec-Jan P.23 Dear Mother; Like the rest of the mainstream journalism media, you're still missing the point with regards to electric vehicles. While it was nice to read that there is an “X...

Spending childhood in the Panhandle of Texas, where the winter slides down from Canada without a single tree to slow it down, I learned that the Bing Crosby White Christmas fantasy is totally Hollywood B.S. - a white Christmas just means frostbite toes because you can't afford shoes, icecicles...

Same here - Especially since... 1) you can run a diesel on veggie oil, peanut oil, recycled french fry oil (oops! I'm sorry; I mean Freedom Fry Oil), the skin oil of pimple-faced teenagers, olive oil, etc....and 2) At last month's meeting of the Houston Elec Auto Assoc one of the guys told us...

I'm hoping I'll have my finances in order by the time they are ready to offer them outside of Cali. I would love to have a Wingless Cessna.

Absolutely - a bulb horn! All my mail order parts are in da hizzy so I'm ready to spend my holiday weekends stripping the trike & putting a sprocket on the hub, start fabbin' some brackets, etc. The one thing I like about Houston = great weather in the winter.

I'm starting with a Huffy 3-wheeler from the 1970's - what we used to call Granny-trike; grocery basket on back & everything. It has an in-hub 3-speed where the back wheel used to be and another sprocket drives the chain back to the rear axle's diferential. I just ordered a 500W motor, chain &...