Dean Lofthouse
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Everything posted by Dean Lofthouse
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I don't care...I,m a rebel...
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I,d just ban anyone who has taken part in this thread and have done
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At least he didn't screw your head to the floor...
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You,d better all start behaving or your uncle Dean will have to start clipping a few ear lugs.
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Hi, if you put in Aixam Mega Truck into google it will bring up loads of info. They are 48v, mine is the 12 battery option and it does 28mph top speed, the diesel version goes faster. I bought the vehicle purely for the advertising value. Its very noticeable and gets loads of attention, most jobs you price you spend at least 10 minutes talking about the little truck. You see quite a few on eBay, mainly because they buy them then leave them sat with discharged batteries and knack the battery pack. There are quite a lot of over complicated expensive electronics which I have bypassed or replaced. For example, the on board charger was quoted to me at £2.5K, I ordered an all singing all dancing top of the range one direct from china at £300. Its also a tipper
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Round here I get about 30 miles because of the hills, round an estate or a flatter area you'd get 50 miles. On estate work a charge would last you a day. All I do is stick it back on charge after every use and its spot on The amount of work it pulls in is brilliant
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My pricing vehicle
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Thats the way, tipper body protects the lights. replaced mine a few week ago with led along with a new chassis
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I,ve been wanting to make one for a long time, I suffer badly from my brain boiling on hot days. I personally think its due to me being so hot.
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"Bolt on bits" at Birkenshaw, Bradford in my link higher up the thread does everything you can think of Kev, I,ve just bought some side markers, i think they were about £3.50 each. ...and yes to your question
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I want leds on because they are more focussed and you can leave your lights or hazards on without flattening or worrying about flattening your battery. I can leave my beacons on all day without worry. ...and also more and more new trailers and vehicles are now using leds as standard
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One of the problems with ballast resistors is they imitate a load, your putting on a 1 watt load using leds to save power, then defeating that objective by putting in a resistor load back up to 20w to fool the relay. Sandworks has got it with the rdx relay. heres the link that explains RDX 4 Pin Flasher Relay LED & Trailer OK NO MORE Resistors LandRover Defender | eBay
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If you need a link for ebay let me know as I'm out on the lash and will forget (-:
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If your replacing all your indicator lights you can just change the flasher relay for a resisted one. It's adjustable so you tweak it till the indicator lamp on the dash for the trailer works
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Bit of shooting (if easily offended don't look)
Dean Lofthouse replied to jARBy's topic in The Lounge
And to control the urban foxes that the rspca release into the contryside -
The war has been won and no chemicals. Found a single tree within the wood that was covered in web, felled the tree, torched the whole thing and presto....no problem this year, totally caterpillar free.
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defenders....check your tyre size (-:
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Business Management
That's where I cocked up It's 235/85 I used not 225/85 -
defenders....check your tyre size (-:
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Business Management
I stood them side by side and measured their exact heights in inches. 75 =28" 85 =31" -
defenders....check your tyre size (-:
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Business Management
BTW... I was bored -
Ive been running on 225/75R16 for about 4 years which was the size fitted to mine when I bought it. The last set of tyres I fitted before these were 225/85R16. The difference between the two is the wall height, in other words one tyre is much taller than the other, by roughly 3". So I did some calculations for the 20k miles that I have done on the 225/75R16's which have a smaller circumference than the 85's. Circumference 75 = 2.23m 85 = 2.48m Revolutions per mile 75 = 721 85 = 648 difference per mile = 73 revs If I have my calculations right, that means that over the 20k mile i have done on the smaller tyres, they have cost me 93.75 gallon of fuel more. I also would have travelled a further 2250 mile
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It has crossed my mind to be honest (-:
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These are what I have on my landrover, I have 3 forward, two side and two rear facing. They're expensive but will and have lasted nearly a decade. Beaconline - SecuriLED
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I used the Petal traxion for progress capture, the only problem we had was the line we used was a 100m dynamic, so it was like a bungee rope and had to be really tensioned. If we had a long enough static line it would have been spot on.
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Some belting work and ideas there Ian, I just haven't got the "eye" for it. You've got to be able to see what you can get out of a lump of wood, I can just see a lump of wood (-:
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It's tied over the truck roof and onto chassis Stevie. I was thinking that too Carlos. If anyone tried nicking the landrover they not get very far or have a large section of sycamore following them down the road.. What I was going to do was put the truck facing the tree, put the line over the box and tie off down the tail board area. Then tip the back up to tension and get some decent height. Didn't even sweat today
