HuberBlog ::Jason Huber

I bought my daughter her powerwheel jeep when she was 2. Actually 1 year 10 months at Christmas. She was pretty young, so I didnt want anything too fast. This one was a one seater jeep 6volt.

Now she is almost 4 and needs something a little faster. I decided to take the least expensive route and just add another battery. Well normally you would think this would add more time to the powerwheel, but I wired them in a series so that they add power. Insted of going 2 miles per hour it now reaches 4.2 MPH. This was measured with a Rhino GPS unit.

How did I do it? Well without photos yet…

I wired the batteries in a series. This means that I took the two batteries each with a neg and pos terminal and wired them in a way that some might think is crazy. I took the negative from one battery and hooked it to the positive of the other. I then took the remaining two leads (a neg and a positive) and hooked them to the standard plug.

So whats the big deal? Well at this point I had 14V give or take. I couldnt hook this to the standard charger and I didnt want to purchase a new charger. The old one could handle 6V and I have two 6V wired in a series.

I needed to make it so I could easily switch from 12V to 6V when needed. I did this by using those males female slide connectors. Each terminal has a set, with more females then males (you figure it out) This way I basically have a plug, and two batteries, with a total of 6 plugs to deal with. I can only charge one battery at a time with my charger, but I am not out the extra money either. $75 for the jeep. $25 for the new battery.

Here is another guy doing the same thing, but more:

Ryan Hulls PowerWheel