Update:
yesterday saw my first real commute with a 44.5 km round trip. It was just awesome. A ride that used to take 1.5 hrs and all sweaty and stinky for the day then ride for 1.5 back home and fall in a heap now takes about 45 mins each way and just a little out of breath and slight sweating. I WAS doing the pushbike thing once a week 'cos that's all i could stand but, kinda counter intuitively, with this new toy I'll be riding every day (in good weather) so I'll actually be getting
more exercise over the course of things.
This morning, DAY 2, I got pulled over
...
I was slept in, running late with rain threatening so I was drafting a car at 60 odd kmh. I heard the
wooop, checked behind and pulled onto the footpath. My guy pulls up next to me and winds his window down...
Me: Good morning *big grin*
Him: G'day mate, what's that....is it electric?
Me: yeah, that's right, it runs on batteries
Him: Is it Illegal?
Me:......It's 200watts.
Him: you were really moving there....
Me: between me peddling and the throttle I had it pretty much maxed out. (true)
Him:.......ok, have a good day,mate. *drives off*
I then tailed him for about a km or 2 peddling my arse off and keeping it under 40kmh to hopefully reinforce my "legitness" lol, before he dissappeared over the horizon. Lesson learned.
and turns out my three speed switch doesn't go low-med-high, it goes low-med-med.(why me and Hyena were neck and neck with his saggy 9c) I've got a spare here that I'll install "soon"
and I've been playing around with my Rshunt settings, rather than do it properly and it seems my particular controller has a Rshunt value of 1.108 or damned close to it. you're on the money there, too, Jay.
I was a little worried about this backpack booster pack getting out of balance but no, with Icecube's harness's my 9 bricks of lipo are being handled magnificently. totally noob proof.(thank god)
Yeah, was originally going for fibreglass and then I was thinking thick plastic but I'm locked into aluminium now. I've got everything i need, just need the time. I may go fibreglass of CF for build 2, but then there's Hyena's new custom frames so all that works already being done....Hmmmm, we'll see.