I was looking at the Hobie Mirage drive the other day and thinking how cool it would be to have a peddle powered kayak when I thought, how hard would it be to turn a mid-drive electric bike system into something similar?
I'm currently riding a BBSHD on a fatbike but I have my previous BBS02...
Brilliant idea.
I got a great deal on 3dr 3S lipos. 60 batteries at 3500mah each. 5 Packs in series for 15S leaves 12 packs in parallel for each. 42Ah. So I was planning to run 4.0 or 4.1 just so I wouldn't have to balance as often since I will have plenty of capacity. I never thought...
Many off the shelf kits these days say they are good to 14cells Lipo. Since 3cell RC batteries are the most common it's more convenient to build a pack for your bike (or whatever) at 15cells.
What happens to a controller that is running too high a voltage? If you don't run it at 100% will...