Hi
Ever since I started ridding ebikes seriously the idea of cruse control has come in and gon out of fashion.
Most controllers have a rudimentary cruise control switch that freezes the voltage the controller gets from the throttle allowing you to stop turning the throttle, this could be overridden by doing one of thre things, applying the ebrakes, pressing the cruise control button or using the throttle. There was also a stand alone type that can still be found in China the problems with that were reliability, sometimes it did not engage the switches were flush with the unit forget about it working with gloves.
I always liked the idea of cruise control but always thought it had been done the wrong way, the controller activation method is all you need but how it worked after that was not locking the voltage from the throttle is a simple and easy method so I can see why it is used. A better way would be a system with feedback so the speed can be kept at a constant (this may have problems if you are going at top speed and more power cannot be applied but as long as more power is available it should work say if you had a bike capable of 30mph and you had put a speed cap of 25 mph on it).
Would such a thing be of any interest to anyone, I want to do one for myself and could probably make it available to be sold. Warning this will not be soon I have to find the code to program the device R&D price will be small so my main outlay will be in time and coding not outlay on hardware.
Geoff
Ever since I started ridding ebikes seriously the idea of cruse control has come in and gon out of fashion.
Most controllers have a rudimentary cruise control switch that freezes the voltage the controller gets from the throttle allowing you to stop turning the throttle, this could be overridden by doing one of thre things, applying the ebrakes, pressing the cruise control button or using the throttle. There was also a stand alone type that can still be found in China the problems with that were reliability, sometimes it did not engage the switches were flush with the unit forget about it working with gloves.
I always liked the idea of cruise control but always thought it had been done the wrong way, the controller activation method is all you need but how it worked after that was not locking the voltage from the throttle is a simple and easy method so I can see why it is used. A better way would be a system with feedback so the speed can be kept at a constant (this may have problems if you are going at top speed and more power cannot be applied but as long as more power is available it should work say if you had a bike capable of 30mph and you had put a speed cap of 25 mph on it).
Would such a thing be of any interest to anyone, I want to do one for myself and could probably make it available to be sold. Warning this will not be soon I have to find the code to program the device R&D price will be small so my main outlay will be in time and coding not outlay on hardware.
Geoff