I was running a 36fet Greentime controller(http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=33636&hilit=greentime). It was configured to run at 100a battery. But it wasn't configurable past that. It's freaking HUGE! But I mounted it along my top tube between my legs.
Unfortunately my CA is not working (blew a cap), so I'm not sure how much power I was actually pulling. But I imagine it was above 5kw...
I was at a dead stop and hammered the throttle 100% on the "lowest" 3-way setting on a very slight uphill. Don't get me wrong this.. even on the "low" setting, the bike still wanted to take off like a bat out of hell. I have to move all my body weight over the front wheel to prevent a wheelie... but i kept it down, until the axle snapped
Thanks for those words GC, I'll just chalk this one as learning experience. I understand at these power levels... stuff happens... especially since this is my first bike.
I only took off a little bit in the wire channel... somewhere like 1mm? I've tried to illustrate where I've done that in the red in the image above.
I'm using the Kiwi dropouts... everything felt tight, but I'm not a dropout expert. The axle snapped on the edge of the dropout.
I'll inspect the other side of the axle and see if there is anything wrong with it as well.
But looking how thick the wire channel is and it just feels very small.
I think i'm going to go with a smaller wheel diameter. I'm getting tired of blowing everything up