These work ok, BUT you will be best off with a rotary electric mower. The efficiency is much higher. The Problem is long grass with the reel mowers. it will not cut long grass first second or third pass, sometimes not at all. The rotary mower if you go electric would probably be best with a universal brushed motor originally for 120v but set to 40 or 60vdc The motors run adequately at these loads and speeds. Tradmill or washing machine motors work good for these applications. I would use my own blade though, lighter weight, thinner and sharper. It takes less power, they cut more cleanly and efficiently. Even s shaped blades are made for cordless electric motors and they are supposed to work more efficiently. If you can find a 22 or 23 inch deck with a bad engine, convert it, put a galavnized bucket over the motor to make it look decent. and add a battery tray that holds them tight. The front of the mower deck must be cut out and reinforced in my opinion, this doubles efficiency and cut quality on any type of mower. It is a shame to see the cheap plastic electric and gas mowers with stuffed up decks that have 2 or more barriers waay infront of the deck so the grass gets pushed down and wont get cut, or will get chocked full of grass killing efficiency and usefulness. Its best to have unobstructed blade, and common sense, if your retard kids look at that spinning and think thats interesting i wanna touch it, you should probably put them in a padded room and lock them up. The whole god damned situation calls for sharp blades, no pushing down on grass, and simple reliable torqey motors, and batteries that arent an explosion hazard, basically nothing on the market fufills these requirements. Goddamn go figure.
Assuming you’re in Aus any chance you can post a like of the motor? Ps sorry for the weird profile my eldest likes to use it apparently his made it his own
motor and controller are just aliexpress specials. there's a heap of sellers, just find one selling the spec you want. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003570330560.html You'll need to find a spocket to suit your chain and the motor shaft. In this case I found the right sprocket, but with the wrong bore so I had to manually file a keyway into it.
@@DudaAround Ok, thanks for that. When I saw the Ozito batteries I thought you had used an Ozito mower as a parts source and used their brushless motor for the project ( assuming they use a brushless ??) All clear now.
Went with a generic 40a 2000w controller, I'd you believe an ebay listing. Motor maxes at 18a rated, I haven't seen over 15. Just went oversize to not stress / overheat it. Similar to www.ebay.com.au/itm/312778645953
Awesome work mate, Im definitely looking into this myself. Thanks for sharing this is that a fuse box between the 2 batteries is that right? What did you use? And whats your set up there? Thanks mate keep up the good work.
Just a 15a inline fuse. Being Li-ion batteries just wanted some extra protection being unsure of the internal protection systems on the batteries, and from what I could find 15a was the max rated short burst discharge. Motor is rated at approx 18a, but haven't hit that yet.
💪 Video was an after thought. I built it then thought hey, people might like to see it in action. I've got a 20" I plan on converting soon, so might get the camera out for that one.
You Sir are a Genius and that is before mentioning the repurposing of a 60 year old Cylinder Mower & a throw away modern day Ozito Cylinder Mower both of which could have easily have found their way to the scrap heap. I actually have an old Ozito Cylinder Mower I retired last week and have been wondering what I can do with it, just wish I had your talent to do what you have done. I tip my hat to you Sir!
I've gutted the internals and just using them as a mount, just left the power pins mounted. Positive in 1 charger, negative in the other and a link wire between the 2 to series the batteries.