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kleinbl00  ·  2750 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shopski (short): Learned to O/A weld today

Boy howdy. It was backintheday. At the time the hot shit power source was Optima yellowtop lead-acids.

I was working for a company that made electric cars back when an electric '92 Ford Taurus was hot shit. They'd made this thing and a couple others. I feel like the motor was an industrial beast; kinda feel like we just bought it out of Grainger. Nowadays? I'd prolly use lithium motorcycle batteries in series/parallel. But if you're going to do that, remember the mantra of the electric car mechanic:

1 HAND IN A POCKET AT ALL TIMES

(keeps you from inviting an arc across your heart)