baby HEMTT update

[Jones]

Jon, I'll be at Tower Park w/wo. Looking forward to seeing other SS members. Glad to give you a tour.
Jack, Yes to hot-rods. I'm thinking baby HEMTT hi-rider... I've already got the 20" wheels; just need to find some of those 'spinner' wheel covers.
Does 4" exhaust, not quite seven feet from manifold to exhaust flapper, qualify as a 'sound system'; or do I need to start filling the cargo bed with enough speakers to make all the surrounding sheetmetal rattle and hum?

 

[BillIdaho]

Man I am impressed!!!!! I wil be at Lodi, with the other Idaho guys. We'll be where we usually are, with all the patches, ribbons, and medals. I sure would like to see the Jones-mobile idle by. I just want to crawl around over and under it and be amazed.

 

[cranetruck]

Beautiful attention to detail! Good to see that you have such a great outlet for your fabrication skills, every system turns into a project.

Having been there, the images reinforces the memory of the whole truck and the Sacramento Locomotive Works, where you do the machining.

What does the battery tray look like? Did you get all the right bulkhead connectors?

 

[clinto]

I just can't get over this thing.

When are you bringing it to Aberdeen?

 

[Jones]

Bjorn; I posted some pictures of my hold downs in "Battery tray adapters", in the Electrical section. They're machined out of PVC block and grab the Optimas at the bottom. that way there's no top-of-the-battery obstructions for the cables and terminals. And thanks for the compliment; I made the NATO receptacle enclosures (on the truck, everything in red primer is my handiwork); cables slide through grommeted holes in the back to feed the receptacles. All the main battery power is 2/0 cable with crimp on lugs, soldered after the crimp, with glue-lined shrink tubing.
Clinto; Once I have it on the road and have shaken the bugs out of it, I'm gonna be out driving and enjoying it. This ain't a display piece! Only concession may be to haul it to the more distant meets (I'll have more money to play when I get there if I don't spend it all on fuel and linament for my saddle sores).

 

[mangus580]

Jones, I would be interested to see your plans for 'removing the dogbone' and such for the slave ports....

Me & kenny have had a discussion about such a thing on our Golf Carts. We want to have 2 12v batts that are wired parallel normally, but can be switched to series (wtih cart off obviously) for jumping something 24v.

Open to input...

 

[Jones]

Mike,
Unless I'm missing something basic, I think this should work just fine.

 

[mangus580]

Awesome!! I just couldnt picture it in my head, and was too lazy to put any more thought into it than that!



hey, at least I'm honest....

so... it could be done with 3 Knife switches if wanted too

 

[mangus580]

Hmmm... maybe this is easier... (if one can be found!)

http://www.wirthco.com/knife_switch_double_2-way_12-24_v-p-66.html

 

[Jones]

The 2 way knife switch would be a simple set-up; an enclosure to mount it in, positions marked as to voltages and you're set to go.

 

[mangus580]

Its a great idea... but a little bit more expensive than I wanted...

Looking at maybe doing the same thing with constant duty solenoids for half or quarter of the cost.

Thinking about it, the prime use will probably be my Robo-Wrench, but the ability to slave things will be worthy too.

 

[agazza2]

Do you have any completed photos of this build? Thanks

 

[4XDesign]

Do you have any completed photos of this build? Thanks

Ditto!

 

[rustystud]

"I just know what I sometimes call it now."

"Honey bring the kids inside - he's working on that thing again."

Funny ! LOL !!!

 

[M813rc]

Baby H is still not complete. The inimitable Mr Jones has recently passed the project on to a new owner, so we'll see what the future brings.

Cheers

 

[StrykerPerry]

Can't wait