DIY Solar Lawn Mower #2

In 2005 we created our solar mower #1 that is merely a 24 volt battery operated cordless Ryobi push mower. We were not taking photos or video at that time but we wanted to. So recently, we were at a monthly local public auction (great place to get project parts) and came up with a Black and Decker 12 volt model and since our 5 year old 24v Ryobi was in need of repair at this point. So it’s a great time to share this little mod to basically charge a battery operated mower with a solar panel. This is only a concept guide to what we did and you will no doubt be using other equipment or have problems other that we incurred here so please be safe with your re-engineering. If you are not sure what you are doing ask someone and/or check the web/wikipedia.

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Toyota’s Unwanted Acceleration Theory Explained

This is a Clash of Modern Technology.

(please read addition to this post at the end to just get the skinny)

Please only watch this video completely (27min) before commenting on it.

For many years I myself have been angry about the FCC rules being relaxed about 20 years ago with regard to Part 15 Interference between devices. The relaxed rules simply are no rules or standards that a device must be able to withstand some amount of RF energy before acting improperly. This was to allow manufactures to not have to pass any tests and remove shielding in a cost cutting move.

This was not such a big deal when it happened as there were not 1/1000 the RF transmitters and not near as many potential receivers to interfere with but still I seen this at the time to just […]