Endless Sphere

I was going to say it might be built on a friday ( bad case or something else ).. because it sounded like you gave it a hell of a try..

The QS is enormously heavy and many smaller DD hubs can be just as reliable.. and a little more efficient and a whole lot lighter.

Yes.. voltage sag will increase as IR goes up and capacity goes down. The biggest variable will be temperature, as temperature has a sizeable influence on IR. So the before and after tests need to be done at roughly the same temps.

I'm no bafang mechanic but i can tell you that seeing these broken is no surprise. You may be able to fix it but another part will eventually go. The drive has multiple weak points. Over half the parts are known to not be strong enough for perpetual use. If you have access to machine shop goodies, i...

You should really get a watt/volt/amp metering device. It will teach you a lot about power consumption. Whatever display you have will not indicate much of use ( what does a bar represent, exactly? :roll: ). These have always been cheap and pretty reliable: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-180a-w...

Yes, as long as the half-sized battery has the same internal resistance ( and thus double the load doesn't double the voltage sag )

IE.. the 2kwhr battery is 2C capable and the 1kwhr battery is 4C capable.. therefore the efficiency which the battery delivers power to the controller is unchanged..

The continuation of this story is here. I'm building a semi recumbent:
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewt ... =6&t=98401

Have you contacted the seller for support?

broken front forks with front motors is not uncommon. What kind of fork was it?

The disappointing part with them is when they went to thinner lams, the motors didn't get any better. Since then I've always visualized them as some Israelis using ultra-cheap labor Palistinians to wind their motors. Hmm... did they lie about the laminations? I don't see how the motors couldn't hav...

I encountered this company sometime around 2014 when they started spamming the endless sphere facebook page. I remember thinking... okay, let's give these guys a chance because they're a small motor manufacturer and it seems like a cool item for ES users.. I asked for a standard dyno sheet and what ...

Hell of a deal. Good luck with the sale.

This is what controllers do when they cannot handle the eRPM of the motor. They act as an on/off switch. The effect gets worse, the higher the voltage goes. If this controller came off a bike with a hub motor, it would be surprising that the motor would even run at all. My old MAC motor ( 16 poles x...

Yikes. watch out for idiots on youtube and facebook. This place has enough electrical engineers ( hobbyist or professional ) to keep most of us out of trouble. Generally on the internet, the more lo-fi the discussion format is, it seems like the higher the IQ is.. There are many reasons this is a ba...

Having said all of that, none of this should apply to Endless Sphere - as far as I'm aware (I haven't bothered to look deeply) there's no advert platform or user tracking analytics (aside GA which is fairly lightweight). This forum is optimized as much as phpbb can be optimized, and then there's so...

That's insane.

While we're at it, here's a picture from CERN showing the difference between a copper wire and a superconductor designed to carry 12500A.

leafbike is the only company i know of who has published a dyno graph on any DD hub motor showing >90% efficiency in the 1500w motor. Real world testing on the motor thread has confirmed it's capable of doing that. YescomUSA is just an average mid quality clone of a clone motor and it's very unlikel...

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Tesla-Reviews-E43129.htm Here's an interesting snippet.. If you look at the SEC filings, you can see that the top people are basically compensated the same as the other employees, which is a pleasant surprise. Right, so just what i expected. You work for Tesla beca...

In this executives leaving fiasco, are there any explanations as to why people left? There has been so much smoke and mirrors on the bull and bear side of this company that i never know what to think. Ive just been buying their stock when people freak out and selling it when they get overjoyed. Buyi...

A lot of people pooh pooh electric cars based on current technology, assuming it won't change. I've been hearing the 'electric cars won't work because x' argument since i got interested in them in 2006. The number of reasons why they can never work keeps getting shorter. I wonder what the reasons wi...

I built everything using $50-$100 10-20 year old mountainbikes from craigslist early on. And i typically bought used parts from my local bicycle collective.

Only recently did i start spending.. gasp.. $200-$800 on used full suspension mountain bikes and semi recumbents on ebay.

Hey cool and thanks for sharing that. This is a refreshing break from all "new battery" breakthroughs we're used to hearing about. There are several other aspects of the EV drivetrain that are all deserving of improvements and it's good to see permanent magnets getting some R&D love too! NP! what i...

How do you stop lazyness and stupidity, mother nature used natural selection we need to emulate that without killing. George Carlin had some excellent solutions in mind. This isn't just a scooter problem. It's the fact that the cost of disposal and production of goods is extremely out of whack with...

Being able to run for the first time in my life is good enough! ( i wobble and move at half the speed of most people when i try ) It turns out i get to keep the rings and hardware after the surgery because of stupid laws preventing them from being recycled and reused, even though they're easily sani...

They cut the tibia in half, bolted an adjustable frame to the bone, and currently have a 2mm gap between both sections so that the bone is prompted to start filling in the gap... Then twist the bone while gradually compressing that 2mm of fresh new bone. The cool thing is that its all computer guide...

Oh wow, i mistyped. My big leg surgery was in 3 days ( as of writing then ). I've had the operation and i lived. I have a big ugly taylor spatial frame around my tibia so that it can be rotated into the correct alignment gradually over time. I should be out of the ebiking game for 2-5 months... but ...

Hey, dr greger is right about something for once :P The secret to beet juice is the nitric oxide boosters. I take citruline ( an extract ) before working out and it works excellently for increasing endurance. That and creatine are my go-tos. Beet juice just has too much sugar. Nitric oxide boosters,...