A lawn mower question from one of my readers.
I recent got an email with the following question.
Dave, I have a lawn service in Littleton (CO) and am toying with using electric cordless mowers. These mowers last about 1- 1 1/2 hrs. on a charge, so I was thinking of using solar panels on top of the trailers to keep them charged up along with spare batteries. Do you know anyone I could get in contact with that has this type of expertise? Thanks, Grant.
That is an interesting question. When I was in college I used to cut lawns with a company that had about 8 guys and two trucks traveling around my old town of Redding CT. I remember the time to travel from one lawn to the other would only be about 10 minutes or so.
I am not an expert in solar but I would think that 10 minutes between lawns would not be enough to charge the battery in the lawn mower so it could last 8 hours of mowing lawns like I used to.
Perhaps others would like to join in if they know if this idea would be fesiable.
