Happy endings!

[chezmax]

So, 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!

Comments

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess you win on that at least. I never minded the smell of our gas mower, particularly since cut grass overpowered it, but to each his own... certainly the noise was never pleasant. I daresay I'd rather smell my gas mower than somebody else's car that really ought to be e-tested (or condemned), but living on Erb Street still I don't get a choice about the latter. >: