Damon Henry's 1970 Datsun PU 520

Owner

Damon Henry

Owner's Other EVs

1974 Suzuki GT250
EV Dragbike

Location

Vancouver, Washington US ^map

Web/Email

WebPage

Vehicle

1970 Datsun 521

Motor

Advanced DC Series Wound DC
6.7 ADC 8 brush. Salvaged from a forklift pump motor. My 16 year old son and I spent 2 days during spring break 2007 rebuilding this motor at Jim Husted's shop. Click on the WebPage link above to see the motor being built.

Controller

Logisystems 120SXX-0
Currently running at 108 volts and 1000 amps

Batteries

90 Saft BB600, 1.20 Volt, Nickel-Cadmium, Flooded
Two strings of 90 BB600 put in parallel.

System Voltage

108 Volts

Charger

Schumacher SE1072
I have two SE 1072 Shumachers plus boost transforms to charge packs individually. I also have a 20 amp variac based charger I use.

Heater

2 cheap 120v ceramic cores from space heaters wired in parallel. They draw about 22 amps total which works out to roughly 2000 watts of heat.

DC/DC Converter

BB600
I built a 16 volt battery from 14 BB600 cells. I may pull one cell out to drop the voltage to 15.

Instrumentation

Evision
I have one of the first units from www.metricmind.com. It is a very high quality EV specific instrument. You should seriously consider getting one.

Top Speed

80 MPH (128 KPH)

Range

20 Miles (32 Kilometers)

EV Miles

Start:	91,400 Miles (147,062 Kilometers)
Current:	95,000 Miles (152,855 Kilometers)
Total:	3,600 Miles (5,792 Kilometers)
	As of 10/31/2009

Seating Capacity

Curb Weight

2,550 Pounds (1,159 Kilograms)

Additional Features

I originally built this with an Alltrax 7245 72 volt 450 amp controller. The performance was adequate, but the Logisytems controller makes it quite peppy and a lot of fun. It's higher voltage limit also allowed me to stuff a few more cells in my battery boxes. 90 cells are as many as will fit which raises me up to 108 volts.

code by jerry