Elmo
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- Feb 19, 2017
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So I built this a few years ago, it's a vintage American made recumbent frame with a 9 Continents 2809 clone hub motor in it running on Tesla style fused 14s20p 18650 cells housed in a custom battery box situated for best handling, the bike actually feels better with the battery than without. Cruise on the straight and level if and when I can actually find any about 45 kph or 28 mph, range maybe 50 miles or so at top speed, considerably more if you throttle back to 20 mph..
The solar charging trailer was an experiment that turned out to be beyond me to make work reliably in the harsh environment of an ebike. I could make the boost controller charge the much higher voltage battery but the proper control turned out to be beyond the hardware I felt comfortable sinking money into. Both the technology and my understanding have advanced in the last few years but my balance has deteriorated to the point I had a fairly major crash and now I don't ride two wheelers any more.
The solar charging trailer was an experiment that turned out to be beyond me to make work reliably in the harsh environment of an ebike. I could make the boost controller charge the much higher voltage battery but the proper control turned out to be beyond the hardware I felt comfortable sinking money into. Both the technology and my understanding have advanced in the last few years but my balance has deteriorated to the point I had a fairly major crash and now I don't ride two wheelers any more.