why hello internet yes i'm james and i love making things in a recent video we converted a goped
petrol scooter into battery power yes we made it with new motors new battery systems
and controllers and electrics and everything and got it working absolutely amazing if you want to
watch that you can click at the end of the video to see it it's one of the funnest things i've
ever built but today we've got something a little bit more practical yes we have a petrol lawnmower
made by webang yes wee bang is a commercial brand of lawnmower here in the united kingdom
it is amazing absolutely love them it's one of my favorite rotary mo brands
available yes big statement really like them highly recommended but it's got a petrol engine
on it and we bank don't actually make battery mowers so what we're gonna do in this video oh yes
we're gonna convert it to ego power can we do that is it possible i don't know
we're going to find out because i bang you bang we all bang together let's crack on
shoot
right what do we need to do first we need to unbolt a load of things we don't need and
eat them out the way because engine don't need that choke don't need that throttle don't need
that let's strip it down it takes you about to be farming there is lambing this does got me hand at
one end and around the other ear makes me wonder what i'm doing right oh engine out simple as that
i have a feeling it's gonna be a bit harder to get the rest back in again so we have a shell of a
lawnmower we're gonna put a motor into here let's go find a motor bam right here is an ego motor yes
it is our ego lawn mower so that should work that should be exactly what we need cool right
bam fitted ego battery charger no you don't need to put a battery charger on a motor
but you do need somewhere to house the controls and everything the brain of the operation which
is going in there and the nice thing about the ego charger is the battery fits on it
boom like so and then we have our battery cool converted we now have an ego powered lawnmower
no not quite now i need to work out how that's all going to work together we've got
to obviously put controls at the top and control it down here so that we know what's going on and
make sure the blade goes right away i've got to program all that and work out all that from a
motor controller right let's scratch my head and then have a build montage boom let's go
right so we're making progress the problem i had was that the motor is just going to fall through
because that holds bigger than what this is obvious so i need to make a cradle the
motor needs to be closer to the grass otherwise we're not going to really cut much grass we're
just going to top it off we want to cut the grass properly so now the motor goes in there
which is nicely out the way it gives us more space on the top as well yep move on next stage let's go
right now the motor fitted and the blade fitted yes it's now time to do
the exciting bit the computer boxy brain system oh yeah let's do it
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now got the first part of our housing fitted in we'll get all the fan dangle bits done here next
and that will go on the top there battery slot in i think that looks a lot better
i have gone for the fast charger i had an old one of these lying around
instead of the standard charger just because i think it looks a lot more streamlined you know
what i mean it's looking fam dabby doozy i'm loving it let's do some soldering and like
put some controller sort of thing in there and well yeah it's all very exciting
right we have actually got a working mower yes we have a battery we have a motor controller we
have a motor and we've now got a switch at the top end of the handlebars where it should be
but it's all a bit messy at the moment oh i got the blade underneath yes i put the blade on so
that is just exciting right so press the button we should be able to make blade
speed make blade revolutions uh loss of words right ready let's go
that is the blade going round on a wee bang mower powered by a battery an ego battery
that's just crazy right so i'm happy that is good we've now got to make that look a lot tidier
and i need to put a motor on the back axle so we can make it drive you know
go forward we don't want to push a motor do we never make it go forward by itself
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right guys i have some great news yes the back axle is now powered by a motor yes
it doesn't have a belt going for the crankshaft like on a petrol mower
i've now mounted a proper proper motor on the back i know it's well exciting
really really pleased with it i've had like three different attempts at making a bracket
and a plate for it to all sit on there but it's worked and what we've got on there is good i've
briefly just rigged it up to a motor controller just to see if we can get it to work i got the
little switch here so now we're gonna see it go round press a little switch and all being well
yes it goes round i know how exciting
who knew i could achieve such a thing oh the chainsaw motor on there now it's time to put
everything together get it all wired up nice and pretty hopefully take this mower out and
mow some grass i'm gonna do that it's just gonna be a couple seconds for you because here we are
let's go out and go on the lawn let's go so the wego ebang is complete we just hope it's not going
to be a wego bang because it's my electronics in there it's been a great project been really
really good fun you've seen the whole process in this one video as you see inside that controller
i have fitted a lot of electrical bits there's a lot of electrical bits in there it's all the
controllers to control the blade motor and to control the back axle motor which is well it
is more than i thought it was going to be but i'm really really pleased with also up here we have a
beautiful beautiful little dial which is the speed control yes you can make it go faster or slower on
the drive speed really like that and then up here i've made a switch so now the original handles
work the mower yes like a proper mower it still feels exactly as it should none of these fancy
buttons like electric mowers this is still feels just like a petrol machine but it's electrified
we're going to cut some grass we're going to pick up some grass here now and then we're going to
do some mulching and then we're going to do some side discharging well that's if it lasts that long
let's crack on and do some mowing and see if it's any good right so we're going to set the height
not quite on its lowest setting and you know down too low i don't want to push the mower too much
do one strike we'll probably go down in a minute here we go we pull back this handle
and the blade engage i turn this dial here that turns on the drive and you press in the
original drive and we're off we are cutting grass no we definitely need to go lower right
we are going to go lower how low there
there she goes again yeah as soon as that feels about the right height
ah i've got to do straight lines again the drives a little noisier than i would want it to be
but the way i've set it up i think i'm pretty i'm pretty pleased with it
it is cutting grass and it's picking it up because it's not leaving any behind
a little bit coming out the side probably need a you know make a bit of an adjustment
on the guard i'm not really concentrating my straight lines i'll use that as an excuse
there's a full 7.5 amp hour battery in this by the way it's quite interesting to see how long
the 7.5 amp hour lasts this is amazing i love it faster i think yeah it's a little bit whiny but
still i could cope with that everyone says the battery mode's too quiet this is a breeze and
it still feels like a petrol mower it's all the same controls but don't like about some
battery mowers they they try to be different people don't like change do they you know this
is great i wonder how long it's going to be until i got a full grass box we knew we could actually
make something that worked properly hey who knew that she looked really cool as well really cool
oh i think about i've got a full grass box you know
wow that grass box is absolutely jam-packed look
at it you cannot ask for a fuller grass box than that
that was amazing it is packed absolutely packed so that's one grass box full let's see how much
charge we've got left in the battery and it's still full and that's running the blade motor
and the chainsaw motor that is on the gearbox brilliant right let's put the mulch plug in
and see how good it is at mulching this is brilliant i cannot believe how good that is
i hope you can see that well enough on camera how good that cut is right that's mulch still works
and we're off and we're mulching here we are is the perfect weather for mulching
it's three inch grass and i'm taking an inch off perfect perfect
yeah it's doing a good job i feel the debt gain full of grass
collecting grass tick mulching tick let's try some longer grass with the side discharge shoe on
and see how far it shoots out the side or even if it does i don't know let's
go into paddocks let's find the goats and do that right side shoot on now it's time
to shoot some grass at the side if it will engine going engine who's got an engine
right drive
and we're off oh no not that fast james not that fast
it's doing it it's cutting it's cutting grass now i've got my speed control sorted out
really thick
singing arrows all sorts look at that
he's just jumping through it he's just chomping through it oh yes chomping through it
just chucking out the side not having to collect it
look at the cup we bang an ego i've sown the seed please make some babies
of your own the uk is screaming out for ego powered wee bang mowers we need them please
look i've proved it works it's a proven concept i don't mind sharing the royalties absolutely
fine no problem at all please do it please please please right more mowing more mowing james come on
right to the battery has died we have done nearly all of our demo garden bar a little bit i'm really
surprised obviously i'm a little bit out in the goats fields i think i've been doing a bit in the
gates field i reckon we've got this whole lawn cut on one charge which should have been amazing you
know that ego powered wee bang it's lithium ion battery ego powered wee bang yes i've designed all
the electronics and everything in it to work with the ego chainsaw motor and the eager lawnmower
motor but it works the concept has proven i love it it's my favorite project we have done yet
and if you like these sort of projects we've done other ones we've built an ego powered scooter
we've built a petrol-powered trike well five-wheel track actually we've got some great cool stuff on
our channel so please check out the rest of it please subscribe and we've got lots more coming
so stay tuned we'll see you in the next one have a good day cheerio click up here for the scooter
or click up here to have a look at these wee bang mowers they're pretty cool