rwcherry
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I bought an electric boom lift at scrap prices. The hydraulics work fine on it, but the electric drive is less than ideal. Apparently the motor controller has had its problems.
The battery pack is huge lead-acid cells, 4 on each side (24v), for a total of 48V. All of the boom motion is hydraulic run with pump (24V) off one side and worked fine when tested.
However the motor controller and/or batteries need some work. The full 48V is used for propulsion. There is a motor controller electrically controlled from the lift bucket to 2 DC motors, on the 2 rear wheels. The motors are greatly geared down. For the batteries part, I'd like to replace the lead-acid batteries with LiPo4 or ?. It would seem I could use 12V or 24V packs. My question is what is the opinion of the best systems available, that are also affordable?
I'll post the size after I look it up.
The battery pack is huge lead-acid cells, 4 on each side (24v), for a total of 48V. All of the boom motion is hydraulic run with pump (24V) off one side and worked fine when tested.
However the motor controller and/or batteries need some work. The full 48V is used for propulsion. There is a motor controller electrically controlled from the lift bucket to 2 DC motors, on the 2 rear wheels. The motors are greatly geared down. For the batteries part, I'd like to replace the lead-acid batteries with LiPo4 or ?. It would seem I could use 12V or 24V packs. My question is what is the opinion of the best systems available, that are also affordable?
I'll post the size after I look it up.
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