Thanks for the info on the postie bikes t3sla, that's interesting. The guys that got that contract must be laughing. I'm sure being the govt they massively overcharged them too! I know our PCs at work have to be bought through specific govt contract suppliers and they're twice the price I can buy them for locally.
ROG130 said:
It's cromo, so technically should be a tad lighter than mild steel.
I never actually got around to weighing it when it was stripped but with the rear shock fitted, to pick it up it felt around the same weight as another down hill frame I have here, only it had triple clamp forks fitted too. So I'd say about 2-3kg heavier than an oldschool DH frame.
deepfraught said:
The Hadron kit with torque wind motor 8x8 now in a Norco A-Line worked out brilliantly for lofting the front,
Cool, and having the battery mounted at the back would certainly help with that, although the 5ah lipo pack would be marginal extra weight compared to these silly people running lifepo4
My rear suspension seems to squat a bit when I nail it which I think is not helping with the front wheel coming up, but it's still too early to draw conclusions from brief test (thrash!) rides. I really need to get my wiring and CA sorted so I can see just how much current I'm actually running. Hopefully it's less than 100 amps and I can expect some nice gains by upping it but I suspect it's actually pulling big numbers and it's all the speed winding. My icharger blew up recently and I haven't sent it back yet to be replaced (got it from the US) Anyone in Sydney out my way got one I can borrow for 30 seconds to calibrate my shunt ?
In other news, I bought one of these 5v 5.5a little power supplies on ebay and it arrived last night. It looks bigger in this photo than it is, but that's the lid of a 350w meanwell PSU. These are about 1/3rd the size.
I was planning to use 6 of these as an isolated individual 6S balance charger (to charge my 3 banks of packs in parallel through the balance taps).It only allowed a small voltage drop to 4.8v with the 1k pot it came with but after fiddling I found increasing the resistance to 2.8k gave output 4.18v which is perfect (a 2k resistor put in series with the existing 1k pot gives a good adjustment range of 4.15-2.25v)
Unfortunately after doing this and hooking it up to a lipo pack I was disappointed to see it was putting out less than 1 amp. crap
Considering the physical size of the components in the PSU compared to a little phone charger (which also can put out up to 1a) it's a bit annoying. Oh well, back to the drawing board. There is another style on ebay with a lesser current rating, I don't know whether to take another chance on one of those or just scrap the idea...