Sparkfire’s new gas tank
On Friday last week, a fellow Spitfire converter helped me pick up the next big change for my EV. $7200 in lithium batteries. I bought them from CALB’s warehouse in Pomona, CA. They’re close enough that I could drive over with my helpful friend and pick ‘em up. This also means that if I find [...]
Die Hard in the desert
A few weeks ago, Syyn Labs, drove out to the desert to complete a project for Die Hard batteries. It was the culmination of a month’s preparation work. But, unfortunately, we couldn’t actually do most of the work until we got out to the location. The setting was a dry lake bed an hour East [...]
Monthly maintenance
Every month or so, it’s time to water my lead acid batteries. It’s not particularly difficult to do this maintenance. It’s not even dirty. But, it does take about 30 minutes. Lead acid batteries have an electrolyte of sulfuric acid. The chemistry between the lead and acid stores and releases the electricity that makes the [...]
