Recent content by Peva

Weird - and annoying! - that they do that. Maybe so they can advertise again that they've dropped prices $2000 to get the attention of would-be buyers that haven't been paying attention.

You may know of the newer 21700 form-factor Li-ion cell - slightly larger package size than 18650 for more manufacturing and price efficiency for more power-intense applications - I think I read that Tesla worked with the battery mfrs. for that. Probably most if not all (especially commercial...

It appears you are viewing me and GrumpyCat as one person.

Jeezo Pete! I was addressing *only* the cost of gas and the cost of electricity for cutting the same yard - again - because someone brought that up. Nowhere did I state or imply that I was, in that analysis, covering every aspect of ownership - TCO, even though I mentioned several of those...

👍 (I explained why I focused on the cost of electricity/fuel.)

?? I didn't ignore anything. I never said to look at electricity and gasoline cost and don't look at anything else. I focused on that because someone else had commented on that. You might want to re-read what I said. I mentioned cost of batteries more than once. I suggested (twice) that...

I'm still using the original 80-volt 6Ah battery on my Kobalt self propelled walk-behind that I bought 6 years ago. I bought 2 gray market ("open box") OEM batteries as spares from highly-rated sellers on ebay at half the price of buying new ones through Lowes. (Chinese-branded knock offs are...

We have a lot in common - I'm an electrical/electronics engineer, and I'm one of the guys on car enthusiast forums arguing against EV mandates and pointing out the unachievable grid demands and every other reason why we are nowhere near ready to transition. I wasn't arguing in terms of TCO...

I'm late to the thread. I have the Z30Li. I don't have the burn turn problem. It's supposedly programed to prevent one wheel from staying totally still while making a turn. It appears to work like that on mine. I just bought mine this spring. Is this a possible later software revision. If...

"$60 of diesel to mow 3.5 acres? 10 gallons? That doesn't sound right." I wondered about that too. He did say that was a 60" mower, and implied that the weight might drive the fuel usage up. Not sure if that's true or not. More weight would be more than offset by wider cut => more...

I bought the 30" Ryobi Z30Li this spring. Comes with two 80-volt 10Ah Li-ion suitcase batteries. They have 30", 42", and 54" models. (They also have steering wheel tractor equivalents in the same 3 deck sizes at same prices as the ZTs. As someone else mentioned, this spring they dropped the...

"Fact: Idle speed activation of electric PTO shreds belts. Manufacturer says 2/3rd to full throttle when activating." While idle-speed shredding is counterintuitive, I don't doubt it. Likely some resonant frequency dynamics (as you said - within milliseconds) going on, which will vary with...

Groundhog Day (there's a date and time stamp at the top of each post)