Full River Battery Charge #51: I have not purchased GAS since July 18th. 617 Miles.

September 17, 2011, Saturday: I drove another 20 miles on Friday. Since the conversion and driving daily, the EV truck has driven 617 miles without failure.  I have commutted to work daily and averaged 15 miles a day.  My evening charge averaged one and a half hours at 220VAC or 5 KWHR a night.  This is about 50 cents a day.  My first full PGE bill was higher by only 15 dollars/month.  My lifestyle or driving habits have not changed.  I still run errands during the day.  I have not purchased gas nor commuted in a gas vehicle since since July 18th.  100% reliable. The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home yesterday with a state of charge was ~59% or 149 Volts. On Saturday, I started the automated charge with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 3:30 PM, at 28.4 Amps. Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 5:50 PM. Total charge time was 2 hour and 20 minutes. Warm peak pack voltage, during bulk phase was 175.0V. 

Peak voltages near end of charge at 16Amps when regulating were:
Reg 1: 14.60V
Reg 2: 14.50V
Reg 3: 14.64V Highest
Reg 4: 14.21V
Reg 5: 14.50V
Reg 6: 14.50V
Reg 7: 14.49V
Reg 8: 14.36V
Reg 9: 14.05V Lowest note: This regulator did reach the high limit of 14.50 at the end of change, regulated, reset and the red LED is now off.

Reg10:14.49V
Reg11:14.50V
Reg12:14.38V
Today marks an accomplishment of 2 months straight commuting! 617 Miles. 100% Reliability! A shout out is shown below.  Cheers:)

Full River Battery Charge #50

September 15, 2011, Thursday: Today, I drove another 20.4 miles. Since the conversion and driving daily the EV truck has driven 596 miles without failure. 100% reliable. The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home today with a state of charge was ~60% or 149.6 Volts. Started automated charge with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 7:55 PM, at 28.4 Amps.   Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 9:58 PM. Total charge time was 2 hour and 3 minutes.  Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V.  I noticed the morning after the charge (Friday) that Regulator 9, for Full River batteries #15 and #16 in the circuit had the red light on.  The lower limits on the regulators is still the Manzanita Default setting. 

Base voltages read morning after the charge were:
Reg 1: 12.92V
Reg 2: 12.96V
Reg 3: 13.02V Highest
Reg 4: 12.89V
Reg 5: 12.91V
Reg 6: 12.93V
Reg 7: 12.98V
Reg 8: 12.96V
Reg 9: 12.86V Lowest. Rest of code: 09T 074F 09X COLD 09S 09 09MI 03.25V 09MA 14.8V 08V 6.49V

Reg10:12.89V
Reg11:12.92V
Reg12:12.91V
Expect the next Full Charge on Saturday will reset this Regulator.   The voltage is not abnormally low.

Full River Battery Charge #49

September 14, 2011, Wednesday: Today, I drove another 14.6 miles.  Since the conversion and driving daily the EV truck has driven is 576.4 miles without fa ailure. 100% reliable.  The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home today with a state of charge was ~60% or 150 Volts. Started automated charge of the Full River DC-250 AGMs with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 5:57 PM, at 27.3 Amps:I checked back at 7:15 PM at 9 Amps. Regulators on the peak batteries were regulating. Battery pair data below:

Peak voltages read were:
Reg 1: 14.50V
Reg 2: 14.47V
Reg 3: 14.51V Highest
Reg 4: 14.50V
Reg 5: 14.50V
Reg 6: 14.50V
Reg 7: 14.49V
Reg 8: 14.13V Lowest
Reg 9: 14.15V

Reg10:14.21V
Reg11:14.16V
Reg12:14.18V

Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V.
Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 7:55 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 58 minutes.

Full River Battery Charge #48

September 13, 2011, Tuesday: Today, I drove another 10.2 miles. The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home with a state of charge was ~75% or 152 Volts. Started automated charge of the Full River DC-250 AGMs with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 6:30 PM, at 28 Amps:I checked back at 7:35 PM at 12.2 Amps. Regulators on the peak batteries were regulating.  Battery pair data below:

Peak voltages read were:
Reg 1: 14.63V
Reg 2: 14.50V
Reg 3: 14.82V
Reg 4: 14.42V
Reg 5: 14.34V
Reg 6: 14.48V
Reg 7: 14.70V Highest
Reg 8: 14.39V
Reg 9: 13.92V

Reg10:14.23V
Reg11:13.85V
Reg12:14.12V Lowest
Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V.
Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 7:45PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 15 minutes.  Total miles driven since the conversion is 561.8. 

Full River Battery Charge #47

September 12, 2011: Today,  I drove 12.6 miles round trip. The initial pack voltage prior to charge was 151.V ~ 65% state of charge.  At 6:55PM, I began charging with the Manzanita Micro PFC 30 charge at 27 amps.   Charge completed at  8:45 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 50 minutes.    I have driven 551.6 total miles since July 18th.  EV Ranger has been 100% reliable.

Full River Battery Charge #46

September 11, 2011: Today,  Mike Gordon visited with his Ford Ranger to look at our Ford Ranger EV.  The initial pack voltage prior to charge was 152.V ~ 69% state of charge.  I started the charge when he arrived at 2PM.  I began charging with the Manzanita Micro PFC 30 charge at 27 amps.   At 3:00 PM, I checked back and the current was at 14.0 Amps and the corresponding pair of 6 volt Full River batteries were at:
1) 14.50v
2) 14.47v  
3) 14.79v Highest
4) 14.50v
5) 14.37v
6) 14.43v
7) 14.52v
8) 14.16v
9) 14.00v Lowest
10) 14.10v
11) 14.39v
12) 14.48v

Charge completed at  3:28 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 28 minutes. Then, I drove 2 miles with Mike Gordon. Total miles since July 18th are 539 miles with no problems.  Mike showed me his Ranger.  Mike did an excellent job making a completely automated hydraulic bed lift.  Photo shown above.  Thanks for visiting and best wishes on your conversion.

Full River Battery Charge #45

September 9, 2011: This morning, I charged after returning from downtown Portland last night OEVA meeting (16 miles).   At 6:30AM, I began charging with the Manzanita Micro PFC 30 charge at 27.8 amps.   The initial pack voltage prior to charge was 152.3V ~ 70% state of charge.  At 7:45 AM, I checked back and the current was at 26.0 Amps and the corresponding pair of 6 volt Full River batteries were at:
1) 14.34v
2) 14.53v  Highest
3) 14.27v
4) 14.34v
5) 14.50v
6) 14.50v
7) 14.29v
8) 14.16v
9) 13.97v Lowest
10) 14.00v
11) 14.16v
12) 14.12v
Charge completed at 8:00 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 30 minutes.  Then, I drove 10 miles to work and back.  Total miles since July 18th are 537 miles with no problems.