Recent content by MikeQBF

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The charger is a Delta-Q IC650 with a lithium-ion profile. This company is strictly an OEM offering no consumer support and will respond only to manufacturers incorporating their products. I have "dealt" with Delta-Q chargers for 16 years and know this the hard way, given the hulks of four...

I'm not a good one to ask - only about 30 hours on it. Had one trip to the shop @10 hours for a deck motor overheat error, it turned out to be a loose connection from the factory. Easily corrected at the shop. Been good since. Now as far as it works as a lawn tractor versus a pure mower, it did...

I have an acre of "mongrel" lawn with six old trees, all of which have surface roots that confound easy mowing around or over. If I wasn't careful, I would occasionally bang my old rider's deck against one, sometime bending the lip enough to rub the blade. Then there were two or three instances...

Very little EGO chatter on this forum, so either nobody's buying 'em, or nobody has problems. ;) Seriously, two updates to mull if anyone is interested. First is Home Depot discontinued carrying EGO earlier this year, and is now fronting their house brand, Ryobi. I bought the EGO 21" pusher...

Call it an "early-adopter tax". ;) Oh, yeah, I know what you mean! It is sort of a teething-pains issue as everyone jockeys for market position. I'm less concerned about this with the CC rider because it's not relying on a consumer-handled modular battery system, but an allegedly...

In a word, NiCads are passé. Lithium-based systems are overall a superior solution. For one thing, Li-Ion is cheaper to manufacture for the equivalent capacity. Then, products containing NiCads were barred from sale in the Eurozone in 2016 due to cadmium-content regulations. So any US equipment...

Many reasons. Lead-acid batteries have what is called a linear discharge curve. This is where the available voltage decreases with use. Second, as the charge is depleted, high loads cause the voltage to sag even further, rebounding only when the load is removed. These two conspire to make the...

Confirmed: deck motor temperature warnings were due to cut set too low. I shouldn't be trying to make putting greens out of a trash lawn. :rolleyes:

[Searched the forum for comments/critiques about the LT42e and didn't find anything, so pardon any duplication from this forum noob.] The hydro trans on my Craftsman/Husqvarna 42" shot craps a couple of weeks ago and the cost of repairing was far more than it was worth, so I bit the bullet and...