Recent content by Partycat

12S actually seemed like a pretty reasonable starting configuration for LiPo, and it works relatively low with the readily available low-voltage-cutoff and balancing kit, and the Hyperion 14s capable charger. I've been off the board and the batteries for the last 6 - 8 months so something new...

Nice repair. I received 9 Zippy 20c 6s 5000mAh packs a few weeks back, all cells were in balance. Haven't really wrung them out yet to see if they will hold. One of the cells has a corner bashed in a bit, it may be okay, but, I have it as a "spare" for now. They put all 9 of them into a...

Would this include "radioshack" generic pins? I want to share my :oops: tale of stupidity here. I received the charging harness kit, but, there's a bit of a difference between mine and the pictured ones and directions. The ValULok connector is not a right angle connector, but, instead is...

My plan is / was to purchase the FTM-10SR , which AES has on sale for $199 . That radio is waterproof and compact, and can be mounted to the frame somewhere. The head can mount to the handlebars. The radio has bluetooth module available with a headset, but the front panel can be the microphone...

I would think that to be a good idea anyways with the LiPo, not leaving the whole thing sitting there plugged in like that for any length of time. If a 2%/day capacity loss was enough to worry you about discharging it, then it is spending a bit of time unattended ! I'm fairly sick of Anderson...

Do you forsee much difficulty with doing this and using parallel balance Y leads on the LVC board to bring it up to 40aH with 16 packs of 6s/5Ah? Obviously some clarity on the cell reading is lost when you do this, but, you are expected to monitor the cells anyways. Not to mention it would take...

lmbo, and I just purchased/received one of these chargers a bit earlier. Impatience never pays, I guess, except for the guy I bought it from. I did order the 12s LVC/Balance board and the harness. I've spent more time checking, double checking, fretting, etc over LiPo, which size, how much...

Since I would consider the Zippy/Turnigy to be roughly the same sort of product, I didn't differentiate between the two much. I ran some numbers yesterday and found that to do 14s with 5/2 packs, that the Zippy 30C 8000mAh's were cheaper per amp-hour by like 5 bucks than the 5000mAh packs. Then...

Can you take a picture or something, if you have a moment? I'm looking at these two diagrams, which, don't seem to be quite the same idea. So the 5-/1+ isn't actually connected to the balance plug anywhere, or am I mis-interpreting what you're saying...

Fortunately , there are not enough cyclists around here that anyone knows what is going on, and cares about sidewalk/shoulder riding. I have enough close calls with people in my car that on a bicycle, it would be an unpleasant nightmare (and often is) to use a major roadway. With the lack of...

I drove one of these things for a few years at work. The 1.0 beta model basically. All I can say is when the batteries get low, you're going to get killed in this thing with the stock gels. It was at the point where it would be fast for about ... 10 minutes and then it went to about 12 mph. A...

Well, I bought one of these. It should show up... some day. I stopped by the local hobby shop to see what they had. They have some chargers, but, mostly 6s or less, and the one they had that was high power (all their branding was mostly... hi power or something), well, bend over and take your 6s...

Sorry, I was a bit unfair to come busting in to the thread like that. Nothing like a great first impression! I have to wonder how many 'eBike' kits, and the cheapo 24v SLA jobbers get purchased and then stored in the garage infinately because they just don't cut the mustard for anything other...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Funny man. welcome to the server. the way I hear it is that you really need to try to make them catch fire now days. I'm going off the uneducated's view of laptop fires and the claims that if you damage the cells, you're in for it. I'm not particularly worried about...

I understand from reading here that most of this seems to have become geared towards a debate between hobbiest regulars, on the forums or otherwise. I've been reading all over the place in the last few weeks and have randomly decided to throw a bunch of money into not only repairing my bicycle...