Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Waukesha ‘Enginator’ – Intro to ‘Carbon Pile’ Voltage Regulator Technology – 11/19/11

At this point the ‘Enginator’ was working, but there was still one major obstacle to be fixed. The carbon pile voltage regulator was not working. It was ‘stuck on full’ charging the batteries at 168 Amps at 44 Volts (for … Continue reading

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The Waukesha ‘Enginator’ – Really Getting it Working – Day 5, Friday 11/4/11

After several days of prep work and now getting the ‘Enginator’ running everyone was really excited – we had really accomplished something pretty significant. But, we were sort of “out of available weekends” with our families so we decided to … Continue reading

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