The electric reel lawn mower in operation. A real DIY project.
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2011
- Here is a video of the working lawn mower. And the result after. Works really good. The longest run is about 2 hours, on one charging. The battery voltage is then about 12,1 volt on each battery. Battery manufacturer says I shouldn't go below 12,1 volts, for the health of the batteries.
I charge it with my solar panels, about four hours in clear sunlight. - Věda a technologie
wow! Need one of those. A true battery powered, e-mower! I like the width of it, beats a riding mower, better than a zero-turn, looks like a tractor pull.
Hi Tony. It depends on your purposes and the size of the mower. If you are building a wider mower, the older mechanical ones are easier to convert, and are more energy effective than the newer hydraulic ones. Hydraulic ones: If you just put a suitable electric motor on the hydraulic pump on a hydraulic mover (will work), you will notice it will drain your batteries quick. You have to mount a motor on each reel to get efficiency (complicated but possible). And a separate motor (or more) for the wheels. Then you get a super mower.......
Mechanical ones: A good choice of mechanical mower is the Toro 58". Enough space to mount the motor, and all the mechanical stuff is already there. Just some simple lathe work for the motor’s pulley. But any similar mechanic mower will do. Good reasult, with much less work than converting a hudraulic mower.If you are really serious (golf court style) you put two motors on it. One motor for the reels and one motor for the wheels.Then you can adjust the speed of the reels according to the type of grass, thickness, wanted result, etc. Otherwise the hardware stuff, that i mentioned in earlier reply, works very well.I have now converted my mower to Lithium batteries (48V, 30Ah). 60kg´s less weight and larger capacity than the old 48V 72Ah Lead/acid.
Kornmanist, thanks a lot for such a detailed instructions. Hope to see some of new videos on this topic
Sergey, the motor is a Mars ME0909 and the controller is an Alltrax NPX4834 (discontinued, but use Alltrax AXE 4834 or Alltrax SPM instead). Bought at evdrives.com.
Batteries 4x12v 72Ah lead acid. Enough for cutting my 6000 squaremeters of lawn, in one charge.
I am on 5th season now, and my batteries start to degrade a bit. Imay upgrade to lithium. Everything else works superb.
The lawn mover was a Toro 58, before my conversion.
Its a huge relif getting of the cloud of exhaust around me when i used my old Husqvarna Rider.
Despite the helth benefit, it has paid itself alredy in gas savings.
Thats a reel good idea
Wow! That thing is a beast! Looks like you had to hold it back from running faster. Anyway to slow that down some? I could see running over some flower beds with that thing.
This guy does not have green thumb he's got green toes!
Very creative! I really like what you did with that. The cut looks good!
I'm just getting started on a Diy, I currently have an old 46" 3 blade rotary deck from a old geared riding lawnmower. Would you recommend having one electric motor to power each blade or one motor with a belt to power all three?
Depends on the construction. If the rotors already are connected with a belt (likely), and you dont have three spare motors, use one motor for all three rotors. Simplest and cheapest. Remember that rotor movers consumes more energy than reel movers. So, depending on the size of your lawn, use decent motor and batteries. Look at hp of the movers former combustion engine to get a motor power hint.
@@kornman I appreciate your insight. I will definitely have to look at the lawn tractor engine that I pulled it from this weekend so I'll see if I need to use the condenser motor or a pool pump motor that I have. I'll go with single motor belt configuration.
What type of the motor and controller it is? Where did you get it? Can you specify model? Thank you
Nice 👍
Where can I purchase this product ?
Yea
I couldn't tell. Are the blades powered or does the motion on the ground turn them?
The blades are powered.
too bad you don't have a place to just sit and steer that thing looks like it could take it