gman1971 said:
I think is awesome to see more trike riders... anyone here in the Madison area?
My family is into weekend adventures, we get on the trikes and we just go...
G.
Madison...
...Wisconsin?
docnjoj said:
I've seen those things and they also can be used for model railroad controllers (there's a bit of useless info).
There is no useless information in this thread... just
docnjoj said:
My wife carries a giant red flasher 12V on the back of her trike as she likes to ride behind me so she can crash into me when I stop. The light is killer and impossible for a car to miss (famous last words) I am interested in the led strips just too lazy to put mine on.
otherDoc
They're pretty simple to apply (because-lazy, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered)
I used packing tape on one strip and it's held up really well (also because -lazy)
I like the RF controllers' control action better than the IR controller that preceded it. It (RF) has less functions but includes ones the IR controller lacked but I'm interested in using (like, being able to turn the whole body of the trike into a BIGGER turn signal during daylight hours)
One of these days I'll make GIFs of the lights-in-action because I'm uninterested in starting a youtube account. (don't wanna... and I always [Erik Cartman] "...do wut I want"[/Erik Cartman]
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I scare myself when I make accurate assumptions, (I usually make falsies) like I assumed MPDPM would go 25mph using 61V (15S LiCo lightly discharged) with the MXUS geared-hub front motor and indeed, it hits 39kph up a 2% grade (Close enuf for downtown Brookings). For the metric inhibited, that's 24 point something mph.
Hits 41kph (25.5 mph) on the flat... but there is
nothing flat locally 'cept by the ocean.
Pedaling = High gear with the single 56t chainring allows for an 80ish rpm cadence @41kph.
If I don't need to go across town I just run a 12S battery on the MXUS which gives the trike an average speed of 17mph (30kph) (oh... it's sooooooo legal)
Ascending greater than 10% grades it slows to 25kph, maintaining that speed up until a 25% grade. Kinda strange, that bit-o-info, but it has to do with the fact I'm applying power to both motors when ascending stiff grades. Notice 25kph is
faster than the top speed of the rear motor.
The rear motor always gets the 7S battery for a top speed of 13mph (20kph)
Attaines 16kph up a 30% grade (10mph). Lucky for me, the longest 30% ascent I traverse is only 150m.