I Loved This Electric Mower Last Year, but Now...

Battery swap with the Coda - yes please! Sounds pretty intimidating, though! :D Also: why is no one taking pride in their product anymore? In my opinion Ryobi should fix the battery for free. It was obviously unfit for the promised 2 acre task!

Juhani Saarinen

Wow, are you aware how much that Gravely mower costs? It's $32,000!

Aging Wheels

First and foremost yes we want to see a battery swap. If your still shopping, Gravely makes a EV mower that might by worth looking at. https://www.gravely.com/en-us/power-equipment/electric/pro-turn-ev

Tim Bertram

I have several of the Ego products, and generally have been happy with them. If I was in your position, I'd be interested in their ZTR. That said, each of my Ego tools uses one interchangeable battery - even the push mower. The ZTR uses 6 of them. The upside is that you can swap out batteries and keep running. The downside is that you'd have to have another set of batteries, and they are expensive: The 52" ZTR comes with six 12AH batteries, and they are $550 . . . each. Ego does have lesser amp hour batteries, but in a high-draw application such as a ZTR I can't imagine that they would be satisfactory.

CharlieVictor

Do you have anything that uses Ego batteries or Ryobi 40v?

BrandEver

This seems to be the general consensus. Looks like it's what I'm gonna do!

Aging Wheels

It's not for everybody, but it makes the beer afterwards taste better. :-)

David Pierce

I would absolutely swap some of those Lithium iron phosphate batteries into the mower. It'd be like your equivalent to an engine swap, which is quite popular on YouTube. Not only that, but you'd save a TON of money and you'd get to keep the gogo sticks.

Packardlebaron

Is it weird that I knew this was going to center around the '48V' emblazoned around the mower, without knowing the battery issue? I mean, who in their right mind, in the last few years, would use 12V lead-acid batteries in a yard tool of any kind? Even deep-cycle batteries are kind of the same stripe.

Josh Dionne

Comparatively, yes. I'm sure I could figure out a way to over complicate it though. I'm good at that

Aging Wheels

That sounds exhausting to say the least

Aging Wheels

The joystick control on the new ones seems conceptually awkward. Who wouldn't want big fun tank levers? I'm guessing you're not going for the battery swap option immediately because the electric go-kart project has traumatized you in some way in that regard. Understandable, but you did make a really cool looking battery pack

Sorry about your mower. I only have a 1 acre yard, and a Toro walk-behind mower. Takes 2-3 charges of the 6Ah battery to do everything, but it's good exercise.

David Pierce

I feel like it'll be a tough sell (literally) to get rid of this one, especially when the batteries are already compromised. Compared to what you did trying to get the kart going, it sounds like a battery replacement on this one would be pretty simple.

There is a great thread located here: https://diysolarforum.com/threads/ryobi-zero-turn-mower-sla-to-lifepo4-conversion-updated-build-complete-with-pics.22922 of people converting their Ryobi mower to LiFePO4 batteries. There is a local blemished/damaged freight resale place here that occasionally has these for 50% of normal retail. Been thinking about snagging one for my .6 acre yard...