Recent content by Lionstrike

And list the PRICE ALWAYS. I am not willing to guess the magic number. The currency unit also tells me a little about location.

Droooooooooool..... I still like Headway batts :) I am wondering how much of the voltage sag and C rating were related to the BMS.

Hey Cicada, Well... the project has become three different ones. The EV addiction... it got me BAD. In the last few weeks I bought: A Crystalyte 5304 front and controller with all accessories (700c) A generic "Desheng" eBikekit with 48v NiCd. And I have been tinkering with my electric...

The video of the accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgmWvo_TOgI (Happens at about 8:39)

Ladies and gentlemen, You might know from recent posts that one of Endless Sphere's members (Icecube57) has recently been involved in an eBike accident that requires him to get surgery. The cost of this surgery is substantial and currently he's short of what's required for the operation only...

Thanks everyone for chiming in. It's a really great thing to have some opinions before I drop 2k on a project. And i am o.k. if it costs 2k by the way. No problem. But if it is to be 2k, then I want PERFORMANCE. I want it to be worth every penny. 30mph (50kph) is all I want. I am totally...

I am very much interested in the progress of that build! Thanks for sharing that. I am a little disappointed with the top speed figure though... did you get that problem figured out? I am looking for 25-30 mph and 25 mile range.

I see your point. ..But on the other hand, I think that I might be a "lifer." Before I am said and done, I plan to have several of these green, cheap to run and maintain little commuters around, a virtual little fleet of little bicycles that allow me to put my size 14 shoe straight up big...

I have a completely constructed Ebikekit.com bike. It was originally running at 36v, but today I added another 12v and "Watts - Up" instrumentation. It's rocking 48v now SLA and has a digital speedometer I just put on. Looks like the added 12v helped the speed out about 5mph but it still...

LOL, not so far fetched as you might think! I saw some students rolling through campus the other day on regular bicycles towing a trailer full of slabs of stones. LOTS OF THEM. Epic leg workout.

Wow. That's a lot of info. So.... I looked up pingbattery... regen braking requires a couple of more hurdles to jump over. The regen current can't be more than 5 amps and special wiring is needed in order to do it. Since I am a lithium virgin it's probably not a good idea for me to...

Funny you should mention it Ypedal... my Powerwerx.com order just came in today... adding 12v to my current 36v pack and adding a "Doc Wattson" meter for instrumentation to see how it handles. This should be interesting. So looks like with a pingbattery... 9c is the winner. Probably 2806, 48v...

Good points all... and as tempting as it is to make a bike that's just SICK we run into the prior problem... cops that haven't been laid in months. Limiting the amp draw to about 30 does have the anti-pissed off cop mitigating effect. As for the braking system... I can't say yet. I haven't...

LOL... a 300lb dude riding a moped would look comical. I had this discussion with Dogman on another thread and I guess regardless of what the bike's capable of... if ridden sensibly the cops would pretty much give a dude a break. 30+mph on the road?.... uh... no. They'd probably get on my...

You just might have a lithium convert here. By the way, I've got some time to work on this thing. I pretty much saw how jacked gas prices are now, and the fact that I only really live about 13 miles away from where I could charge and said that this is the last year I'll be a slave to oil...