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    Genuine Cells

    Cap Rouge
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    Endless Sphere knowledgebase system ( zeropress ) and funding drive

    I'll pledge AU$100 - perhaps more come the day.
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    Time to replace battery?

    Another measure is 'how many charge cycles has this battery passed?' Does your control system tell you that?
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    Battery from AliExpress

    You don't say where you acquired your batteries from, nor do you say what their history is - used? I do see that there are ads that offer 'greenworks' batteries from Alibaba. Maybe they are counterfeit, maybe they are legitimate. Maybe they've been treated harshly in transit, maybe not...
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    Hub motor as generator

    I know of no motor which works for thru-axles apart from the Grin motor. You'll need to address that first. You might be able to use a friction drive or a reverse 'stoke-monkey' approach to take the motor out of the picture.
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    Grin's rear all axle motor!

    !?
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    New rule against AI use on ES

    Perhaps this is meant as a flippant comment in a social interaction, but otherwise it's not real. Socializing children (done properly) prepares them for adult freedom in a manner that does not lead them to murder, steal, assault. In a manner that contributes to the general good, rather than as...
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    BYD Seagull, the cheap electric car the USA almost got

    I understand it sounds like that to you, as you are the one who suggests the connection. Please don't pretend I said that - you are misleading at my expense. After the Port Arthur massacre, the gun laws in Australia were changed, and there is a push about Domestic Violence now. It is social...
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    BYD Seagull, the cheap electric car the USA almost got

    Sometimes stupid cures itself, but we get around this by making more stupid. People can and do use enormous resources to avoid admitting Reality, all the while insisting they are 'right'. They run out eventually. Sometimes I'm around and I get to enjoy it. Reality doesn't care, and always...
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    Source for 5083 25mm or 1" tubing

    There is no need to reply suggesting I try Alibaba or something. I would like to hear of A SOURCE that CAN PROVIDE Alumin(i)um tubing: 5083 alloy 25mm or 1" O.D. Modestly larger sizes can work. 2 or 3 mm wall thickness I'll want 8 meters but I can negotiate that with the source. I can...
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    Middrive, belt drive and coaster brake

    This sounds real - you can space the components as you need to ensure the belt line. I am not certain of the other remarks about the consequences of belt drives. My reading suggests a Gates belt will last for 20k kilometers. As well, I see Gates sells snubbers and tensioners for belts which...
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    Middrive, belt drive and coaster brake

    If you don't use all of the sprockets, you can mount a belt sprocket with spacers anywhere along the freewheel/freehub to buy more adjustment room to match a front motor sprocket line. Gates belt sprockets to mount to a Shimano 9 spline freehub are standard parts. There are even some rear hubs...
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    anyone had a battery that wont switch off

    Yeah, but he's miles away by now... It was a pretty big battery.
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    Middrive, belt drive and coaster brake

    A belt means you are giving up flexibility for the belt-line. Chains bend sideways - belts do not. You'll want to investigate the 'chain line'/'belt line' of your motor and destination rear hub. Gates recommends a millimetre of difference at maximum. My trike has a belt from (mid mounted...
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    Amberwolf disappearance and newbie help requests :(

    I have read the post Amberwolf wrote, and I don't read anything that isn't an actual statement of fact. I do have my own experience giving and receiving that without tone and context from actual presence that communications can read differently. But I don't like the thought of Amberwolf tying...
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    BYD Seagull, the cheap electric car the USA almost got

    Absolutely. Cars take a ridiculous share of space, and other resources for most of the jobs they do, and they isolate people socially, which encourages anti-social behavior. The solution to building the wrong society is not to make it less expensive, the solution is to stop having that society.
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    updating controller with higher amp rating

    You'll have less $$.
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    UK gov' consultation to allow higher power ebikes and throttles

    They aren't, so that's not part of the discussion. Electric boost beyond that speed may be limited (25Km/hr) here in Australia, but you can pedal your bike/trike as fast as the speed limit where you are riding (roads and shared paths have speed limits).
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    Help with GMAC superharness rear hub order

    Grin sold the properly machined metal mounting plate/heat sink for the controller. That should be part of your order, and I don't see it on their website just now. I only see Reention mounting plates and external (bike frame) mounting plates. You want one - it soaks up extra heat and connects...
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    UK gov' consultation to allow higher power ebikes and throttles

    Wow. It's almost as if we had some responsibility to other people for our actions and the consequences.
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    UK gov' consultation to allow higher power ebikes and throttles

    Yes. Since this was here, and a good discussion, I wanted to leave explicit information for DIY folks that the 250w didn't mean 'maximum at any time no matter what'. When I started, I thought it did, and I would have not purchased the same motors if I had known better.
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    UK gov' consultation to allow higher power ebikes and throttles

    I understand the Aussie law is modeled on the European ones. The UK details might be helpful for someone assembling their own. There is a detail I've learned about, which may or may not fit with UK law - '250w' does not mean 250 watts maximum. Rather, it means that it fits some testing...
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    UK gov' consultation to allow higher power ebikes and throttles

    If the law in a jurisdiction specifies you can't change the controller, then such a change is illegal. Depends on where. I'm in Australia, and among other requirements, on public roads and paths the motor must cease providing power at speeds above 25km/hr. If I change this on a bike, I'm...
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    Universal AWD mid/front hub bike

    This helps as it provides some idea of the sort of riding you want to design for, although it also seems to say "everything". That's not quite true - it doesn't suggest extreme off-road or high-speed on road. Are you thinking of regenerative braking in this design? I've converted a 20" wheel...
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    Fourstar Trike Resurrection

    Now there's something you don't see every day.
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