ANOTHER RE-CHARGE ON THE LI-ION BATTERY PACK
It had been quite a few days since the batteries were fully recharged (on Aug 11, I think) and I have not been recording the daily voltages. But yesterday in the afternoon I noticed that the batteries were sitting at 48.4 volts while idle and dipping down to about 44 volts under full load.
Time to recharge. At about 7:30 last night, I flipped the dash switch to charge (the charger instructions said that the output leads needed to be connected before the charger was plugged in), and plugged in the on-board charger and it showed a starting charge current of 5.5 Amps, just as it was supposed to be. Again, I forgot about it until the middle of the night, but didn't check on it.
This morning, the charger had shut off automatically, and the voltage was again reading 56.8 volts, just where it is supposed to be.
Still in good shape!!
The miles on the previous charge was only about eleven, but a few of those miles had been pulling a drag, made from half a length of railroad tie and some logging chain, on my woods trail. Just kinda wanted to see what it could do. That really sucks up the power but the battery and cable and electronics temps were cool when I checked them afterwards.