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Yeah, for your use you could certainly get away with overpowering the motor. When i use the term 'continuous', i mean literally running the motor at that power level for 24 hours, IE it will sustain that indefinitely. So there's lots of wiggle room between cooling and heating cycles in the kind of r...

I like it. I still have my old Meanwell SP, and have been looking for sort of a higher powered alternative to my cycle satiator. In all honesty, if grin released a >500W cycle satiator, i'd be all over it just for the nice overall package, high efficiency, etc. But this is as close as you're gonna g...

Here is the power graph, just for reference. The maximum efficiency point is 333W on 36 volts / 11.1A on this ~230rpm wound motor pictured. I believe that this motor may handle 350-400 watts continuously on 36 volts. 48 volts might put you in 450-500 watt continuous territory in a 26 inch wheel or s...

Kinda sad to hear that it's on the loud side with a FOC controller. I'm sure that the higher pitch is more audible, due to the high rpm and how the human ear works.
I expect other dual reduction motors to have the same effect.

If anyone can get a video of the noise, that'd be really helpful.

That's kinda cool, but why? A used computer + the correct controller is cheaper than this. $50 computers are everywhere. I'll admit, rolling my bike over to my desktop/laptop computer and dangling a cord out is a pain in the ass, but i wouldn't pay $150 and buy a piece of hardware that's specific to...

Geez.. LG rates the F1L cell at 0.2C. Which means that an ideal pack size for a continuous 30 amp draw is more like 150AH. The optimistic 'vaping rating' is 4.8A. That pack would sag like crazy even on 20A. There are high capacity cells that are rated for 1-2C out there. No idea why this cell would ...

Excellent little test. Yeah, its rather sad that we dont have good 26650s available to the hobbyist these days huh? I've always wanted to build a pack with some, for the sake of simplicity, but its just not happenning. Seems like the 2070 is the next best thing.

Their kits are terrible. I wouldn't touch them. The controllers are not matched to the motor's continuous capabilities, and as far as i know, not programmable. That 1000W motor is wound WAY too fast ( 40mph winding, which requires 2000W continuous, on a 1000W motor? WTF? ) That being said the 1500W ...

neptronix, I'd be very interested in seeing what you build with this motor. So I special-ordered this motor with a 120mm width axle since I'm using it in a single-speed. But the motor comes stock for 135mm dropouts and uses a 6 to 7-speed freewheel—no cassette version as of right now. I think a few...

Hello, here is a video from the motor 290rpm, freewheel not so good: https://youtu.be/PpaGfM4vh8s The battery is 36V, the engine has a lot of power, on the mountain too, makes more noise at idle as in operation and under load, freewheel a bit stiff but maybe that will get better with time? Sorry my...

Awesome! thanks for your report on this. I've really been thinking about building up a 700c wheel bike with one of these for months. This motor looks like just the ticket. 3lbs is freaking sweet. Can you do this thread a favor and upload a quick video of you spinning the wheel forward and backwards ...

Emails from the forum have http:// links which require a new login. Crud. I have that delegated to Samson for now. We can finally get security certificates that fix this http/https and www./no www. issue now, but our provider has yet to actually give instructions on how to install them ( yeah, than...

Two hundo is a pretty good price for a complete wheel. I bet that thing rips in a 20" wheel. GL with the sale.

It sucks to see an original die, but i won't miss them. Bionx was the first kit i saw in late 2008 in California, when ebikes were just starting to get popular. Local dealers were asking $1000 for their 250w or was it.. 350w? kit. And that's without battery. There was nothing else on the shelves of ...

GeriatricGeoffrey wrote: ↑

Jan 28, 2018 9:40 pm

I'm 24 and feel like I'm far too old to even begin to understand this crypto madness.

I'm in my mid 30's.. If i can understand this in a few months of reading every day, you should be able to as well

I have access to a twin CPU Xeon e5 2603v4 6-core with 256GB RAM and an Nvidia quadro M4000 graphics card with free electricity that's sat idle 99% of the time. Would this be any use? That would be awesome for mining Monero or any other cryptonote based coin. I am currently mining turtlecoin ( cryp...

Well, we've had some pretty bodacious dips due to the FUD with south korea and the insider trading shit that their government has been doing. Yet, the market is still alive and growing after the weak hands have been shaken out. Crypto certainly isn't going away. I bought during a couple of those dip...

So Amazon came into this world a big money maker. Of course there's people all over the internet saying differently to try to support some point they wish they could make. They are aided by the lack of real detailed info, I sure can't find it. Only articles that rave on and on without telling much....

On the note if it's stored on a paper or hardware wallet how do you get your new form of currency when the fork happens? You needed to have looked this up before you bought bitcoin! Anyway, google this.. i'm not a bitcoin guy, i don't know.. But.. you should have your money in a paper or hardware w...

I don't doubt the utility of Ethereum - it sounds like it's doing what bitcoin was promising/ought to have been doing. It satisfies a demand (low cost, easy global transactions) and is practical for everyday use (fast, cheap). Well actually, ethereum has been failing to do what bitcoin promised to ...

Appreciate some stocks are traded speculatively, but ostensibly Amazon et al are raising capital to invest in growing the business/building infrastructure that will hopefully eventually result in a highly profitable business capable of paying dividends. The "real" value of the stock would then be i...

Oh, that makes sense that induction motor thinking is different.

Sidenote: Amazon was a very smart investment with hindsight, but was it in the early days? Plenty of very similar startups went to the wall and retrospectively were an awful investment. Amazon didn't go public until the public was clamoring for it. Boggy AT&T isn't letting me search for the numbers...

If Bitcoin has no inherent value, pays no dividends Many stocks do not pay dividends, but people still buy them. Amazon has never paid a dividend - yet there's plenty of people who have been made rich by buying amazon stock. You wouldn't call anyone an idiot for buying amazon stock, would you? :mrg...

Nice to hear that you managed to fix that long running problem. Now with that money invested, you can continue receiving the benefits of that car! After that kind of work, i'd be hanging on to that baby for a while. Electric cars are providing more value with every generation, but you still have lit...