Hey there everybody, I've been surfing around this forum for a while now and found a lot of great information and am truly thankful for this wealth of knowledge ill probably never understand. I'm 27 years old living in Florida and to my research there's not very much limiting me in the law from building a sweet ebike, just the financial limit. I have several motorcycles so two wheels is nothing new to me but the electric motor is way past my understanding.
Anyways, due to my own negligence I no longer have a license and ordered some stuff off the internet to hook up to my bicycle to give me any easier ride to work and the store and such. I ordered a 1000w rear hub motor kit that came with controller, brake cut offs, lcd display, twist throttle, pas and all that jazz also ordered what said a 48v 14ah battery (accidentally ordered two).
Now I love the setup, although I do want to customize it to look a little nicer and handle better, currently have the battery on a rear rack. It gets me where I need but I would love a little more range and this is where my question comes in.
On the streets I ride I have no problem getting up to 25mph (or so the display says, haven't double checked it to make sure it's correct) and feel pretty safe doing so. My trip to work is only 5 miles there and 5 miles back but several times through out the week I do need to go off route and end up with about 20-25 miles round trip. I've done 20 miles in one day on a full charge (ripped it up on the way to work in the morning thinking I brought my charger with me but didn't) but felt the need to pedal a good bit on the way home and just use the motor on the hills and to make my input a little easier. I know it would have helped if I didn't goose it in the morning and all, but basically I'm looking for a little more range.
I bought all my stuff pre made in kits because I'm not very knowledgeable about electronics and wanted it to just plug in and go. Now that I have it and feel a little more comfortable since finding this forum I feel that I'm ready to start tinkering and getting it just like I want it.
Since I bought two of the same battery I'm assuming I could run them in parallel to just "double" my range. But I don't really want all that weight if I really don't need "double". I took my battery apart(kinda) to see how much room it really is and get a feel for what I'm doing, looked like some 18650 cells without completely taking it apart.
Will it be any problem that one battery pack has been used for two weeks and one hasn't even been unboxed yet? I'm also completely clueless on bms's. Basically I just want to use half of (or maybe all of) my second battery pack in parallel to give me more range but with out swapping batteries and only having one charge port. Currently in the process of designing an area in the main triangle to store the battery and everything else. Metal working is a part time job of mine so it'll be pretty easy to make a housing.
Its all the power I need for the time being until I can get a better bicycle but would love some more range.
Any questions or advice is greatly appreciated.
Anyways, due to my own negligence I no longer have a license and ordered some stuff off the internet to hook up to my bicycle to give me any easier ride to work and the store and such. I ordered a 1000w rear hub motor kit that came with controller, brake cut offs, lcd display, twist throttle, pas and all that jazz also ordered what said a 48v 14ah battery (accidentally ordered two).
Now I love the setup, although I do want to customize it to look a little nicer and handle better, currently have the battery on a rear rack. It gets me where I need but I would love a little more range and this is where my question comes in.
On the streets I ride I have no problem getting up to 25mph (or so the display says, haven't double checked it to make sure it's correct) and feel pretty safe doing so. My trip to work is only 5 miles there and 5 miles back but several times through out the week I do need to go off route and end up with about 20-25 miles round trip. I've done 20 miles in one day on a full charge (ripped it up on the way to work in the morning thinking I brought my charger with me but didn't) but felt the need to pedal a good bit on the way home and just use the motor on the hills and to make my input a little easier. I know it would have helped if I didn't goose it in the morning and all, but basically I'm looking for a little more range.
I bought all my stuff pre made in kits because I'm not very knowledgeable about electronics and wanted it to just plug in and go. Now that I have it and feel a little more comfortable since finding this forum I feel that I'm ready to start tinkering and getting it just like I want it.
Since I bought two of the same battery I'm assuming I could run them in parallel to just "double" my range. But I don't really want all that weight if I really don't need "double". I took my battery apart(kinda) to see how much room it really is and get a feel for what I'm doing, looked like some 18650 cells without completely taking it apart.
Will it be any problem that one battery pack has been used for two weeks and one hasn't even been unboxed yet? I'm also completely clueless on bms's. Basically I just want to use half of (or maybe all of) my second battery pack in parallel to give me more range but with out swapping batteries and only having one charge port. Currently in the process of designing an area in the main triangle to store the battery and everything else. Metal working is a part time job of mine so it'll be pretty easy to make a housing.
Its all the power I need for the time being until I can get a better bicycle but would love some more range.
Any questions or advice is greatly appreciated.