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There’s a new eco-friendly roadster set to take over America’s roads in style. Harry Smith speaks with Darryl Siry from Tesla Motors about the 0-thousand car that produces zero emissions.
how to upgrade that busted interruptible power supply and replace the old battery with a car battery! CORRECTION ON THIS MOD. YOU NEED A UPS WITH A REALLY POWERFUL INVERTER TO POWER MORE THAN 1 COMPUTER. something around the range of 600VA+ (VA is the most typical rating found on most UPS boxes, but if you didn’t know that you’d prob wouldn’t try this anyway haha)
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zero emission car my arse, there is no such thing unless you have a massive solar panel plant at home, you have to get the energy from somewhere (powerstation!) What you Americans should realise is that energy efficient cars are more available in Europe because of the cost of fuel in our countries. You can get diesels that do over 80mpg and we’d buy them because we pay $8+ per gallon and higher taxes for higher emmisions!
excellent work!
I would by that in a heart beat.
dude i want one!!!…as soon as i get $100k
its not really zero emissions because using the electricity to charge it is causing emissions
what are you on about? Whats Vash the Stampedes?
Oh, I know all about that. I was more referring to Vash The Stampedes sister from Trigun.
She killed people…
Why? Because Nikola Tesla only invented AC power systems you use for granted today and wireless technology? This company was named after a great pioneer in electrics and sadly is more forgotten than Edison, whom kick started his career in the USA but has also been a bastard to Telsla.
I love it! Finally a nice looking electric that runs 200 on a single charge… but $100,000???? r u kidding? Try making one for $20k or under and then I may just buy one.
u can take it one step further and make the electric car have infinite milage, wireless power transfer, i put up a demonstration so we can learn and bring this technology about underground so all can have free energy and infinite wireless power! we all have to bring it forward!
buy a gtr or zr1 instead
Hey everyone, it goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. Did you hear it can reach 60mph from stationary in less than 4 seconds. In 3.9 seconds it can reach 60 miles per hour from a stand-stil.
my gpa has one
This car is classic but how many people can actually afford an $100, 000 car. Until these electric cars are affordable, almost no-one will buy one. If there was proper, practical, car like this one I would buy one in a flash.
I tend to be warry of things named Tesla..
If they replaced the l-ion batteries with altair nano batteries then the car could recharge in less then 10min.
no more mr goodwrench either
only 12 moving parts
no wonder GM was afraid of the electric cars success
now they have a Volt with a 1.4 liter GASOLINE ENGINE
yes and electric car PLUSE a GASOLINE ENGINE
hello! MR GOODWRENCH its nice to see you again !
like a FOX! you have never seen a boobs like mine!
You should use thicker wire, such as 10ga for the 12v input. as the system kicks over to a battery it is going to heat that speaker wire up really fast… I have a similar setup for my computers internet and a radio linking system…
It’s highly recommended that you wire it long enough (with heavier gauge wire) to place somewhere such as a garage or outdoors in a decent battery box with good ventilation.
Hi I have about 650Va ups for my computer can i use car battery for my ups it will be burnt i think so……?
I believed it was never put into production because energy companies and chemical companies sabotaged the release of the battery because it would devastate both industries.
from what i hear that’s only been achieved in the lab on the nanoscale in small quantities, hardly practical to even mention.
my friend at the University of Texas in the ChE department has attempted to reproduce such results but getting nowhere near even with the original procedures. they believe it’s fraud for grant money.
All lead acid batteries should be replaced after it has been fully discharged just a few times. Its the nature of lead acid batteries. Deep cycle lead batteries are a little better but they also significantly degrade after being fully discharged.
A smart ups device would disconnect the battery before the battery fully discharges.
But not to worry, I forget his name, but a Chinese Professor at Stanford came up with a super lithium battery that is 10x the capacity of today’s lithium battery.
I am thinking about doing the same thing with my apc es350. I first thought about buying a nicer xantrex powersource 400, which is a 400 watt ups with a 40 ah agm battery (pretty darn good for under $200). But I figured that I might as well get a 180 ah marine battery for about the same price and have something I can run my computer and an external higher wattage power inverter for emergencies. I am wondering if I should buy a sealed optima deep cycle battery to avoid the gas and leak hazard.
re: charge small battery vs big battery
12v is 12v
you probably could and your car’s alternator will charge and power it you can just run the wires to the battery and have the UPS inverter in the car.
So basically its a 12v inverter? Can you run it off your car?
You can remove buzzer.
Batteries don’t ‘push’ amps, loads pull the amount of current they require.
possibly catch fire. As suggested below, get a breaker betweem the battery and UPS. Good idea, but poorly implemented and tested
Idiot… Never ever unplug a UPS from the wall while its running espically when it has a load on it. By doing that none of those devices have a earth anymore, if one of them had a fault the outside shell would become live and would give someone a nasty jolt. Other thing to remember is that UPS’s are to smooth out fluctuations in power and to give enough time to safely shutdown connected devices (ie PC’s, Servers etc) A cheap Off Line style UPS like yours would become VERY hot if run for hours
Well I have answered that question in my previous replies, I also wouldnt mind someone with deeper insight than me… am still learning
Will it not have problem charging the car battery since the UPS was designed to charge a small battery?
When I say start a cold 17″ 130w CRT,I actually mean the ups is sourcing its power from the battery and is completely disconnected from the mains
The guage of the wire is also very important,coz of 7501234 am thinking of looking for a wider gauge like 4 or some welding wire.And yes there is a circuit that checks the max current you can draw from your ups after which it will start warning you of an overload (you are drawing a higher current than your ups was designed for).Failure to take action will result in an instant shutdown
I had trouble the last few wks tryin to log in here,anyway just as 7501234 says clips are bad idea coz of arcing which limits your currents.Something interesting hapened awhile ago-I shortend my 12v cabling from 2m to ½m and my ups was able to start a cold 17″ 130w CRT (it could never do this b4).Infact I realized my ups was detecting a premature low vcc hence cutting off b4 time,I guess what am tryin to say is I have increased my backup time dramaticaly
those alligator clips are bad idea, you need to have the best connection and tight as hell, so i recomened you to remove the clips and run the wire directly to battery, you can buy a circuit breaker from car audio designs and that would be a good disconnect, and adding a little thicker wire would be better, mayve 10-12 guage speaker wire, i use dual 8 guage wire on mine, but mine uses 3 12 volt batteries..
just trying to help you out
Can someone tell me what keeps all the ampage from running to the UPS? Is there like a circuit that only takes in the amps it needs or something? Thanks
I have tested my system and am getting exactly 1hr from a starting battery (which was dead for an year).
I also dropped the cutoff voltage to 10.89 to extend backup time. This batt only holds above this voltage for only 1hr so replacing it with a new deep cycle which can be rundown to 20% should give me roughly 3½ hrs as my system is 200w load power max. To cool my ups am using a psu cooler fan &will be replacing it with a mains fan with a higher CFM to optimize cooling as it is surely getin hot
This setup is highly likey to fail with “smart” Upses as the “dumb” ones wouldnt recognize what size of battery you have connected. I had to study the circuitry inside mine to be able to tell where the V cutoff rheostat was and adjusted it downwards to 11.77v then disabled the internal time limiter which was giving me 25min (a problem with smart upses). So now the 8 gauge wire allows me to run a current of about 75A so as to sustain my core2duo for prolonged periods of time playing Unreal tourna
By V transformation I mean transformation of 12v to mains electricity which develops a very large amount of heat which definately destroys your equipment. A ups that size is designed to be stressed during charging for about 8hrs half of which the charging circuit will experience max stress so imagine what happens if it prolongs. I had to get a special automatic charger that would charge the 75ah battery in the time the ups does its 5ah battery so as to virtually imitate the stess situation
From the looks,its quite credible that this setup will work.Well,its highly bound to fail for 2 reasons:
1.The ups internal circuitry was designed to run for abou 10min so its will definitely overheat and fail(by V transformation)
2.The 75ah battery cozez X30 more stress to the charging circuit of the ups than it was designed to take = fried charging circuit over time,unless it has a current limiter.
I have this setup and I was forced to use 8 gauge wire and a fan+disabled internal time limiter
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