Jay64
100 kW
This past winter I bought an ezip from walmart for $350, shipped to my house. As many of you know, when I got it, it was pretty banged up from shipping and wouldn't run out of the box. I ended up modifying the throttle switch to get it to at least run, but then it would start moving as soon as the main power switch was turned on, whether I had the throttle open or not. So I got the new throttle from currie and when i put that on, it all worked good (after I re-aligned the battery racks on the back. When I first got it, it was our rainy season, and I tried to get some fenders for it. Turns out the threaded holes in the frame are not the standard size that the fender company figured they would be when they sent the bolts, but it also turns out that not all four holes are the same size as each other. That was kind of a kick in the butt, but I just ended up not mounting them and the rainy season soon passed. I have been riding it to work almost everyday. I bought a $35 light kit that had an LED headlight and tail light. Pretty much a big rip off. All the headlight is good for is letting cars know I am there, it doesn't light up my path worth a lick. I can ride to work and back on a single charge. One day I forgot my house keys at work, so after I got home I realized I had to go back to work again to get my keys. It was pretty hot, so I rested for a bit in my carport and charged the battery for about 5-10 minutes before I headed back out. I made it back to my work again, and pretty much all the way home, but it was draggin' ass by the time I got back to my place. I was doing a lot of the pedaling on the way home. I was really suprised that it got me all the way back home.
So the other day I decided to experiment a little bit. I have some 28v Milwaukee battery packs and some 36v Dewalt battery packs. I had heard that the 36v might possibly blow out my controller, so I figured I would save that test for later. So I took the wooden battery box that I had built for the Milwaukees when I was trying to build the pocketbike. I really didn't want to tap into the main power wires just in case I messed something up, I wanted to be able to go back to stock if I had to. So the other day I was messing around with the battery contact and noticed that there was a panel under it. So I took that panel off and found that there were some ring (don't know what they are actually called) connectors held in place with a screw to the bottom of the connector. So I was able to just crimp some ring connectors onto the end of my battery box wires and screwed them into the bottom of the battery contact. The ezip has battery contacts on both sides of the rack so that you can run two battery packs if you want. There is a switch that flips back and forth between the two sides. So I bungeed the wooden battery box to the top of the rack to see if it worked. I left the stock battery on one side, and wired the wooden box to the other side, so that I could use the stock battery if I needed to. It ran fine. I went up and down the street to see if I could tell the difference between the stock pack and the 28v pack. No noticeable difference. I got my girlfriend to drive her car next to me to do a ghetto speed check. The stock battery got 15 mph and the 28v got 18. The weird thing is that when we did that test with the stock battery when it was new, it got 18mph.
So yesterday I decided to see how far the 28v packs would take me. I rode to work with them. They made it all the way to work with no problems. I rode home with them and make it to about a mile from my house when I noticed the power drastically falling off. About a block from my house they just totally gave out and I switched to the stock pack to finish the trip. My multi meter doesn't handle high amps, so I am not able to check how many amps I have been using. I ordered a cycle analyst, but it hasn't arrived yet. Today, I rode with the 28v pack again and charged while I was at work. When I got home I checked the v of the one pack and it was at 27.3v, fully charged 28.8v. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the bike. Diesel prices are up to 4.65/gal now, so I am saving a ton of money on gas.
So the other day I decided to experiment a little bit. I have some 28v Milwaukee battery packs and some 36v Dewalt battery packs. I had heard that the 36v might possibly blow out my controller, so I figured I would save that test for later. So I took the wooden battery box that I had built for the Milwaukees when I was trying to build the pocketbike. I really didn't want to tap into the main power wires just in case I messed something up, I wanted to be able to go back to stock if I had to. So the other day I was messing around with the battery contact and noticed that there was a panel under it. So I took that panel off and found that there were some ring (don't know what they are actually called) connectors held in place with a screw to the bottom of the connector. So I was able to just crimp some ring connectors onto the end of my battery box wires and screwed them into the bottom of the battery contact. The ezip has battery contacts on both sides of the rack so that you can run two battery packs if you want. There is a switch that flips back and forth between the two sides. So I bungeed the wooden battery box to the top of the rack to see if it worked. I left the stock battery on one side, and wired the wooden box to the other side, so that I could use the stock battery if I needed to. It ran fine. I went up and down the street to see if I could tell the difference between the stock pack and the 28v pack. No noticeable difference. I got my girlfriend to drive her car next to me to do a ghetto speed check. The stock battery got 15 mph and the 28v got 18. The weird thing is that when we did that test with the stock battery when it was new, it got 18mph.
So yesterday I decided to see how far the 28v packs would take me. I rode to work with them. They made it all the way to work with no problems. I rode home with them and make it to about a mile from my house when I noticed the power drastically falling off. About a block from my house they just totally gave out and I switched to the stock pack to finish the trip. My multi meter doesn't handle high amps, so I am not able to check how many amps I have been using. I ordered a cycle analyst, but it hasn't arrived yet. Today, I rode with the 28v pack again and charged while I was at work. When I got home I checked the v of the one pack and it was at 27.3v, fully charged 28.8v. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the bike. Diesel prices are up to 4.65/gal now, so I am saving a ton of money on gas.