Hefty-G tractor electric conversion, part 7:  field tests and weeding demo with basket weeder
Channel: Reid Allaway
Date: 2019-06-02

Here's a partial walk-around tour of the nearly finished electrified cultivating tractor followed by some early field tests using the Buddingh basket weeder.

For the EV geeks the motor is an Advanced Motors and Drives model 203-02-4004 from a Raymond forklift. Controller is a General Electric IC3645SR4W606N6.  Other parts include a pedal-pot assembly from Yale/Hyster forklift, current shunt and coulomb counter from Korea, tachometer and various other bits from China and I don't really know how much detail to put here.  Ask for answers in comments if you're curious.

For the mechanical weeding geeks out there the rear-mounted parallelogram units are Shmotzer MPPs with a trio of shallow angle goose feet.  The front-mounted flame weeder is from Flame Engineering and is 4 torches on a liquid withdrawal system on a home-built mount with pivoting heat shield.  There's another video of the flame weeder from back in the gas-powered era.

Voilà.  The damn thing works!