Posted by Jim on September 26, 2007, 10:31 am
>> Anybody have a round idea of what an inverter putting out 1500 watts
>> AC would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all. Don't even try
> it.
What if I put in a deep-cycle battery in its place? I really want to try
this. Or if I built a battery box for an aux. battery in my woodcart, that
could be coupled to the mower? I'm in a tight spot here.....
> Vaughn
>
Posted by Bob F on October 1, 2007, 11:00 pm
>>
>>> Anybody have a round idea of what an inverter putting out 1500 watts AC
>>> would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
>>
>>
>> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all. Don't even try
>> it.
> What if I put in a deep-cycle battery in its place? I really want to try
> this. Or if I built a battery box for an aux. battery in my woodcart, that
> could be coupled to the mower? I'm in a tight spot here.....
Does your tractor have a PTO? You could hook up a full size generator to it. Or
throw a gas powered generator into the trailer.
Bob
Posted by Arnold Walker on October 1, 2007, 11:49 pm
>>
>>>
>>>> Anybody have a round idea of what an inverter putting out 1500 watts
>>>> AC would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
>>>
>>>
>>> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all. Don't even
>>> try it.
>>
>> What if I put in a deep-cycle battery in its place? I really want to
>> try this. Or if I built a battery box for an aux. battery in my woodcart,
>> that could be coupled to the mower? I'm in a tight spot here.....
> Does your tractor have a PTO? You could hook up a full size generator to
> it. Or throw a gas powered generator into the trailer.
> Bob
You could also replace the mower charging system with a automotive
alternator.
The old cub cadet I had was rigged with a starter/generator (60's era cub
did that).
Put in an extra starter field and added a auto alternator on back of
engine..
Worked like a champ running electric splitters ,chipper ,and electric chain
saw off invertor.
Lawn mowers usually have next to nothing for a battery anyway, so go to a
motorcycle or deep cycle to get the plate count up.
Remember another time when my motorcycle battery deaded ....borrowed battery
off lawnmower.
Tourbike fried it bad enorgh that ended up getting another battery for the
lawnmower as well.
>
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Posted by rick on October 4, 2007, 11:18 am
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 20:49:24 -0700, "Arnold Walker"
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Anybody have a round idea of what an inverter putting out 1500 watts
>>>>> AC would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all. Don't even
>>>> try it.
>>>
>>> What if I put in a deep-cycle battery in its place? I really want to
>>> try this. Or if I built a battery box for an aux. battery in my woodcart,
>>> that could be coupled to the mower? I'm in a tight spot here.....
>>
>> Does your tractor have a PTO? You could hook up a full size generator to
>> it. Or throw a gas powered generator into the trailer.
>>
>> Bob
>You could also replace the mower charging system with a automotive
>alternator.
>The old cub cadet I had was rigged with a starter/generator (60's era cub
>did that).
>Put in an extra starter field and added a auto alternator on back of
>engine..
>Worked like a champ running electric splitters ,chipper ,and electric chain
>saw off invertor.
>Lawn mowers usually have next to nothing for a battery anyway, so go to a
>motorcycle or deep cycle to get the plate count up.
>Remember another time when my motorcycle battery deaded ....borrowed battery
>off lawnmower.
>Tourbike fried it bad enorgh that ended up getting another battery for the
>lawnmower as well.
>>
>>
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for what its worth a trip to the surplus store makes a nice
"generator" or sorts.
1 - lawn tractor trailer
2 - deep cycle batteries (next one will have bigger batteries or maby
third one.
2 - solar pannels ($100 each).
1 - cheep trickle charger (auto parts less than $20.00)
1 - inverter (take your pick)
its silent. will run for days, depending on usage. can be deep charged
in couple hrs from grid. or let sit in the sun for few hrs to top off
and back to work. and its silent. so i can hear when im not using a
tool.
I would suggest after getting things up and running adding a carge
controler of some sort. (large zenier diode, a few resistors, etc...)
Rick
N4NKR
Rick
Posted by dogbreath on October 2, 2007, 8:34 am
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:48 -0700, Bob F wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>> Anybody have a round idea of what an inverter putting out 1500 watts AC
>>>> would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
>>>
>>>
It takes roughly 132A @ 12VDC to generate 1500W AC through a 95% sfficient
inverter.
>>> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all.
Don't even
>>> try
>>> it.
>>
>> What if I put in a deep-cycle battery in its place? I really want to
>> try
>> this. Or if I built a battery box for an aux. battery in my woodcart,
>> that could be coupled to the mower? I'm in a tight spot here.....
>
> Does your tractor have a PTO? You could hook up a full size generator to
> it. Or throw a gas powered generator into the trailer.
>
> Bob
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>> AC would draw from a 12VDC battery on a riding mower?
> It will suck that battery inside-out in no time at all. Don't even try
> it.