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Old 09-06-2008, 09:38 PM
Mistel Mistel is offline
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Here is the solution. It is a cordless electric lawnmower cobbled together with two 12v solar panels I found on sale at Walmart. The panels produce enough electricity to recharge the batteries in about a week, so it should be able to keep up with the need to mow the lawn. These are cheap panels, sealed lead acid batteries, and a pretty crappy quality lawnmower. It was one of the earlier models and it overheats. I need to add a cooling fan, but it is low on the projects list.

My point is, if a company put some thought into it and put together a brushless motor and some lipo batteries and good panels, you could have a killer mower
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