http://electricar.us/blog Marks Story Tue, 24 May 2011 09:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gallery] Last week at the EAA meeting we had a suprise visitor... By that I mean he wasn't there for the meeting, he was there to go to a different place in the same strip mall area. Apparently he saw my car in front of our meeting place (Lamp Post Pizza, ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/05/23/what-a-difference-a-battery-makes/ [gallery] Yesterday I met with Chad and we bench tested the heater for my car. It was a hack job in that we twisted wires together and set the elements in front of the blower assembly and powered the blower with a battery charger. We powered the elements from the 144VDC ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/05/02/the-heater-continues/ Today I am sitting in a hotel room at the Historic Sonora Inn. My room faces Washington Street and I can hear every car and motorcycle which drives by. I am trying to imagine what it would sound like if all of the cars and bikes were electric. I'll bet ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/04/22/mirror-moves/ [gallery] On my way home from work I decided to stop by Little Dave's place and see if I could salvage a switch off of the Bradley. I started to carefully remove the connectors from the switches only to discover that the switches fell apart. I gathered up all of ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/04/13/deck-lid-latch/ [gallery] I found the proper windshield wiper arms for the Bradley. They were on a 1980 VW Rabbit in a wrecking yard. The cost...10.00 for the pair. Since VW doesn't make these anymore I felt I got a bargain. Then it was off to the auto parts store for a pair ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/04/09/it-was-the-wabbit-the-whole-time/ Today I installed the wiper wiring and have only to hook them up to a switch. Tomorrow I am going switch hunting. Perhaps I'll call Larry. http://electricar.us/blog/2011/04/05/two-speed-wipers/ Today I did a safety check on my wiring harness. Then I connected the rest of my interior dash lights and my turn signal indicator lights and tested the system. I must say that I am a musician and appreciate a good rhythm. EV1E has rhythm! When the directional lights ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/04/04/safety-should-be-loud/ Today I set out to accomplish two main goals. The first goal is to set up a central ground terminal so I have ground within reach of my fiberglass dashboard. The second goal is to hook up the dash lights. Both goals were accomplished. The ground terminal I found is ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/03/31/interior-lighting-or-yes-ground-wires-are-filled-with-smoke-too/ So there I was with a complete assembled headlight circuit outside of the car, trying to see if I had hooked something up wrong. The moment of truth. I had the directional light going on the left side and now I was going to turn on the headlights to see ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/03/26/lights-action-and-something-you-should-know-about-flashers-and-leds/ Hello, Today's quiz is "What is the deal with that title?", "A Little late and a little early?" You see earlier I stated I would try to write every week. Well I am a little late... although it is technically the next week it is Sunday and I stated that ... http://electricar.us/blog/2011/03/13/a-little-late-and-a-little-early/