Jul. 11th, 2008 11:48 am
Happy endings!
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chezmaxSo, the previous story about the lawnmower has a happy ending.
On Monday, the charger arrived in the mail. It was the correct one! It had lights when we plugged it in! Finally!
So we plug it into the lawnmower, and a minute later, the charger says 'Fully charged'. WTF?
It seems mostly the batteries were so discharged the charger was confused (techie bit: we got the multimeter, the 24V batteries were down to 12V...). After some playing with it, eventually we just left the charger in, and overnight, the battery climbed up to 26V.
So, on Tuesday, we cut the lawn! FINALLY! Unfortunately, the battery was still in bad condition, so we managed to do about half the lawn before the motor started sounding a little tired. So we threw it on the charger again, over night, and Wednesday night, we cut the rest of the lawn, and it held up like a champ.
Which is good, cause those batteries would probably have been expensive to replace.
The moral of the story: charge the batteries occasionally over the winter. And hope your charger doesn't die. :)
Our lawn actually almost looks nice now!
On Monday, the charger arrived in the mail. It was the correct one! It had lights when we plugged it in! Finally!
So we plug it into the lawnmower, and a minute later, the charger says 'Fully charged'. WTF?
It seems mostly the batteries were so discharged the charger was confused (techie bit: we got the multimeter, the 24V batteries were down to 12V...). After some playing with it, eventually we just left the charger in, and overnight, the battery climbed up to 26V.
So, on Tuesday, we cut the lawn! FINALLY! Unfortunately, the battery was still in bad condition, so we managed to do about half the lawn before the motor started sounding a little tired. So we threw it on the charger again, over night, and Wednesday night, we cut the rest of the lawn, and it held up like a champ.
Which is good, cause those batteries would probably have been expensive to replace.
The moral of the story: charge the batteries occasionally over the winter. And hope your charger doesn't die. :)
Our lawn actually almost looks nice now!
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Step 1: Insert key.
Step 2: Turn key.
Step 3: Begin mowing lawn.
If at step 2 you fuck it up and flood the engine, just wait 10 minutes and try it again. In all the years I mowed my parents' lawn, this happened once.
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Our lawn was only 3 acres though. Dad got the ride-on *after* I moved out.
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100% of the gas mowers I've used were the "pull repeatedly on this cable thing to start the engine" type, even the riding mower we had when I was a kid.
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