Wcarrothers
10 mW
- Joined
- May 17, 2012
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- 25
Well lots a talk all the time about how Binox is closed and such..
Anywho.. I do CAN communication programming at work so I know a few things about the aprodch and how micros communicate between each other on a can network. Anyway was able to send a few commands reverse engineered from some code taken from a German site. Using one of my can devices I sent the commands in last year. I knew they effected something because the action of the regen breaking changed after sending them in, on breaking only the first blip or light regen. But I knew with the 26v even with the assist mph limit increased I would probably not see any change and I didn't.
Finally got around to upping the voltage. Used a lithium ion battery of about 16 volts in series with the Binox plugged in at the hub motor plug.
So now I have around 40 volts avaliable. Now I get assist and can pretty easily maintain 25mph with full assist on. With 3 blips of assist 21-22 mph is pretty easy even up hill or in wind.
My average befor on my 12 mile ride to and from work was between 16.5 to a best of maybe 17.3or6. First 12 mile trip with the assist went to 20.2 and on my second trip 21.1 then 19.3 with a lot of wind. None of those trips were run at fill assist most of the time I was at 3 blips of assist seeing I didn't know where I would end up with battery capacity.
Only down side is the amp hours of the extra pack is 14.2 so the Binox pack empties quite a bit faster being of lower capacity ( in series the lower capacity battery empties first.). The second battery has 2 segments which are wired in parallel. The capacity led readouts didnt indicate to much drop after use. So I think in order to balance the packs better I'll end up switching between the 2 parallel segments so they become the lower capacity pack thus emptying more.
I know probably a bit vague but most people don't know enough about CAN to understand if I tried besides Also would not want anyone to screw up there system trying to follow my instructions.
But USB can devices are around 300 bucks. The military lion battery I have is around 350, charger another 275 and cable 60 so not a real cheep mod..
Highest recorded speed on my trips so far was 30, doing 25-27 mph with full assist is pretty easy. Range befor indicator says Binox battery empty is ~26 miles but still gives plenty of assist although I refrain from going to much further as I'm not sure where the volage level is for the Binox pack at that point so I ease up. Far as I can tell the battery management micro in the battery pack calculates its level with out regard to the extra series pack.
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Anywho.. I do CAN communication programming at work so I know a few things about the aprodch and how micros communicate between each other on a can network. Anyway was able to send a few commands reverse engineered from some code taken from a German site. Using one of my can devices I sent the commands in last year. I knew they effected something because the action of the regen breaking changed after sending them in, on breaking only the first blip or light regen. But I knew with the 26v even with the assist mph limit increased I would probably not see any change and I didn't.
Finally got around to upping the voltage. Used a lithium ion battery of about 16 volts in series with the Binox plugged in at the hub motor plug.
So now I have around 40 volts avaliable. Now I get assist and can pretty easily maintain 25mph with full assist on. With 3 blips of assist 21-22 mph is pretty easy even up hill or in wind.
My average befor on my 12 mile ride to and from work was between 16.5 to a best of maybe 17.3or6. First 12 mile trip with the assist went to 20.2 and on my second trip 21.1 then 19.3 with a lot of wind. None of those trips were run at fill assist most of the time I was at 3 blips of assist seeing I didn't know where I would end up with battery capacity.
Only down side is the amp hours of the extra pack is 14.2 so the Binox pack empties quite a bit faster being of lower capacity ( in series the lower capacity battery empties first.). The second battery has 2 segments which are wired in parallel. The capacity led readouts didnt indicate to much drop after use. So I think in order to balance the packs better I'll end up switching between the 2 parallel segments so they become the lower capacity pack thus emptying more.
I know probably a bit vague but most people don't know enough about CAN to understand if I tried besides Also would not want anyone to screw up there system trying to follow my instructions.
But USB can devices are around 300 bucks. The military lion battery I have is around 350, charger another 275 and cable 60 so not a real cheep mod..
Highest recorded speed on my trips so far was 30, doing 25-27 mph with full assist is pretty easy. Range befor indicator says Binox battery empty is ~26 miles but still gives plenty of assist although I refrain from going to much further as I'm not sure where the volage level is for the Binox pack at that point so I ease up. Far as I can tell the battery management micro in the battery pack calculates its level with out regard to the extra series pack.
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