I don't plan to keep the drive train at the momemnt, may change my mind on that, but for now with it removed I still need a place to put my feet. A second "left pedal" from another kit flip 180 and with a "temporary" strap hold down, a nice place to rest my feet.
I have some spare parts around, including a 52v 50Ah case battery and a massively large generic 80A controller. Decided I didn't really care about this little motor and would full send it. Worked quite well, frankly, but did top out around 22mph which is just too slow
Though, I can definitely see how a steering damper comes into play at higher speeds. On my list of todos.
Picked up this enormous, super bright LED "whip" to attach to the rear. We'll see how it holds up, but I imagine it'll be fine. Cool sideproject idea would be to integrate it into the brake/regen to have the controller show red tail light while braking.
Started reclaiming the 14s10p pack to turn it into a 20s7p (same cell count, nice!) only to find this horrifying thing -- a pack with P groups capable of pushing 100A has the pos/neg lines on a whole 2 strips of nickel. Just...yikes.
The cells all pulled up and (mostly) cleaned up.
Kept the interior cell washers (is that what you call them?)
Mess of old damanged PVC wrappings. Why rewrap them all? The previous pack had all the cells in the P groups touching, which isn't a problem for the pack generally speaking, however it does mean that as it got used and heated up, all the cells PVC fused together. Thus, as I was pulling the pack apart, every single cell had the wrapping tear in some fashion.
Here I employ some shop helpers to get all the batteries ready for new heat shrink wrap.
Wraps completed. I made a very frustrating mistake here. I should have dremel cleaned the cells pos/neg tabs BEFORE doing this. I had to come back later and a lot of cell wrappings now have dremel damage. Ugh.
The pack laid out in a lovely checkerboard pattern.
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I plan to put the battery in a clear plastic case behind the seat, something like this:
Should be an interesting learning experience. Kinda leaning towards acrylic at the moment. Everything I've read says the Polycarbonate is significantly stronger but it's less UV stable (kinda matters here) and it's nowhere near as easy to make actual boxes from compared to the near effortlessness of seam welding acrylic. I figure for how well "protected" this area of the trike will be, I can forgo the PC for the ease of use (and price savings).
At one point, I toyed around a lot with the idea of building a battery tray under the seat as I've seen other (adam & outrider usa) do, but I had to reel that excitement back -- I'm just not that DIY ready yet.