I'm a little confused on battery memory. Do these gelcell Optimas have memory or not? And if they do have memory are we doing damage by taking advantage of...
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Phil Salkie
phil@...
May 24, 2000 2:18 pm
... You're not leaving the Sparrow plugged in after charge, are you? I believe that the battery compartment vent fans run off the 12 Volt supply, and are ...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
May 24, 2000 8:14 am
EVLN(FUNNY, IT DOESN'T LOOK MUCH LIKE A MOTORCYCLE) [The Internet Electric Vehicle List News. For Public EV informational purposes. Contact publication for...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 24, 2000 3:16 am
... pack or is my relatively old sparrow one of the first to exhibit such issues? Nope. I drove 2 Sparrows (Zark, # 30, and Wasp, # 6), and have not seen...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 24, 2000 2:53 am
... Your range is OK, given that you ride up the mountain. I do too (my girlfriend lives at 8000 feet!), and it takes me about 35 AH to do 25 miles total round...
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Timothy S. Guiles
tsguiles@...
May 23, 2000 9:26 pm
Hello Sparrow Group, I am a new sparrow owner - - - I recently acquired John Oddone's "pinky" which is #4 in the growing population of sparrows. When I fully...
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Alan
midlwood@...
May 23, 2000 9:11 pm
... "overpriced (!*%!$&$) toy". Man what A LOT of information. This is great! Keep the information flowing 'cause I've got a bunch to learn. The dealership has...
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Phil Salkie
phil@...
May 23, 2000 2:42 am
Hi! The pictures of my "less hassle" belt change are at www.howman.com/sparrow/beltchange They pretty much illustrate my last message. I'll put a .zipped .pdf...
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Phil Salkie
phil@...
May 22, 2000 5:56 pm
Oh, yeah - I put some pictures up at www.howman.com/sparrow, and some pictures of a modification I made at www.howman.com/sparrow/keyswitch. I replaced the...
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Phil Salkie
phil@...
May 22, 2000 5:45 pm
Great .pdf files, very informative. I've managed to break the belt on my Sparrow (unit #38) once, but I feel it was entirely my fault - got it stuck in the mud...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 22, 2000 1:33 pm
Last night I was driving Wasp (yellow Sparrow # 6) in Longmont, CO at the end of a weekend long show of electric vehicles inside the Twin Peaks mall. The show...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 21, 2000 7:11 pm
The flashers by themselves couldn't bring the battery voltage that low so quickly, i'd think. You may have a battery problem in your Sparrow, or something else...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 21, 2000 7:06 pm
... You seem to be using far more of the available energy than you should. Every deep discharge that brings about the situation you describe is taking away one...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
May 21, 2000 5:14 pm
Thanks for letting me know. What do you all think of putting that little image with the cover of Autoweek on the front page and having it linked to the URL...
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DirecPC
ez@...
May 21, 2000 12:57 pm
Alan: PLEASE keep sending in comments/suggestions/pictures/good things and badddd....we need to get feedback, we NEED communication, that will filter back to...
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Alan
midlwood@...
May 21, 2000 9:10 am
I'd returned one evening from my daily jaunt & was in a hurry and I left without plugging my Sparrow into house current. I returned a few hours later to find a...
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Alan
midlwood@...
May 21, 2000 8:47 am
Over the last number of months when I've been wondering if I was the only one having the kinds of problems which we are all experiencing with acceleration &...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 21, 2000 12:51 am
I realize with horror that I am hogging a noticeable portion of the space allotted to this group with my service bulletins. Please let me know if you think I...
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emillio
ez@...
May 21, 2000 12:42 am
... David: Please send any and all pictures, notes, comments etc...we all must work TOGETHER to make this succeed !! and call me anytime, I would really love...
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Davide Andrea
1davide@...
May 20, 2000 6:40 pm
As you know, Corbin doesn't have a Sparrow service manual, ... and, at this stage the Sparrow has plenty of problems. In the meanwhile, please allow me to...
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sparrow_ev@...
May 20, 2000 8:05 am
I found the images from the that newsitem dispite the fact the newswire URL does not come up. I uploaded them to the files area. -BruceDP...
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sparrow_ev@...
May 20, 2000 7:50 am
I have added a few Sparrow links I found on ask.com and dogpile.com Click on the links when you are in www.egroups.com/group/sparrow_ev -BruceDP...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
May 20, 2000 7:08 am
First you have to go to egroups.com sign in then go to http://www.egroups.com/group/sparrow_ev click on files click on add use browse to find your local file...
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Phil Salkie
phil@...
May 19, 2000 3:00 pm
Hi there, Just signing on - Anne, Jen, and I own Sparrow # 38, delivered this march. We've put an average of 70 miles a day, 5 days a week, for the last...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
May 19, 2000 8:48 am
{As POSTed to the Internet Electric Vehicle List} [and all EV contacts] --{Fwd from Mike Thompson SJEAA & EV1-Club m.t.thompson@... } Date: Thu, 18 May...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
May 19, 2000 8:18 am
To: David and cc: the Sparrow_EV egroup Hi David, et al :-) David, I pray that you do not mind that I copied this message to the Sparrow_EV egroup. I feel the...
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emillio
ez@...
May 19, 2000 4:54 am
Harry: fire away !! together we can make it better !! emillio www.GMElectricVehicles.com <http://www.GMElectricVehicles.com> ... From: finance@......
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midlwood@...
May 19, 2000 4:10 am
... Hello Harry, I've had my Sparrow since the end of November. What problems are you having? What kind of driving are you doing? lots of local stop & Go, ...
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finance@...
May 19, 2000 2:40 am
Hi , I got my sparrow last week and would like to discuss Sparrow problems with other Sparrow owners. Harry...
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Bruce EVangel Parmenter
brucedp@...
Apr 28, 2000 7:47 pm
EVLN(Conchita's $14k Sparrow images) [The Internet Electric Vehicle List News. For Public EV informational purposes. Contact publication for reprint rights.] ...
