Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!12!700!Bill.Freads From: Bill.Freads@f700.n12.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Freads) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: electric mobility Message-ID: <18276@bunker.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 91 05:29:33 GMT Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Bill.Freads@f700.n12.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:12/700 - CGL-Systems, Toronto ON Lines: 49 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 14112 In a message to Bill Freads, dated, <02-23-91 21:05> Pandora Nigh wrote: PN> Hi Bill, yeah 6mph is a drag, I would prefer something that would go up PN> to 35mph. I keep after Ray and one of these years he may get around to PN> building me a gasoline powered base for my chair. When I was in school we PN> had a guy whose dad rigged him a chair that had a gasoline motor and was PN> encased inboiler plate. It was called the green monster and that thing PN> I like the lights on your machine. Right now if I go putting around at PN> night I use a dive light that Ray built for me out of some 6" pvc pipe. It PN> really casts a good beam also but not like yours. Mine isn't attached to PN> my scooter, I just set it up in by my basket. What I really wish that you PN> could get for wheelchairs is a 4 speaker surround sound Am/Fm radio, tape You know, I did see some sort of movie with some sort of gasoline powered motor WheelChair, only one thing would come to mind, if it is Gas powered, you would require a License/plate for the blessed thing... so that would never do, aside from the fact, the Metro Housing Authority would not let me into the building with such an contraption, but I wouldn't mind getting a more powerfull motor in those machines and a little more speed, if I could make 10MPH per hour I would be very happy... As for the light, well, you can buy them 200/300/500,000 candle power, they are basic Car Spotlights (Handheld) and are from 4 to 10 times brighter than a Car headlight, the one that I bought cost 29.95, the 500,000 one would have cost me 59.95, then it is up to you to fit the thing onto your scooter and AIM it properly so that you don't blind everyone coming toward you, I used a Bike type of clamp, the ones they use on Race bikes for bottles and sort of fit it on the machine, I ran the wire along the same path as the power cable from the control box to the batteries, I use one battery for the headlight and the other one for my tailights, those I installes as well on my own, but I tell you, when I go into the parks in the summertime at night, you want to see how some bushes come alive when I come rolling along with that bright light shining on those bushes... , some people run pulling their pants up, others actually still have a bare bum with pants in hand and run like the wind and their what'chamacallit bopping up and down.. , I tell you, I'm having so much fun when I interupt these people... you know I'm doing it on purpose now since I came across something like that accidentally.. Take care.. Bill -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!12!700!Bill.Freads Internet: Bill.Freads@f700.n12.z1.fidonet.org