Recent content by johninclaflin

I had trouble doing this with a 36v mini controller from ebikelife SWXH-R kit. I already had success overvolting the kit to 48v with SLA. When I series wired another 6v in, if the batteries were fresh off the charger it wouldn't come up, but if they were a little used, good to go. I wrote down...

Two years ago I had a home built coroplast fairing on the Sun ez1sc, and the problem I had was visibility. Riding home one night I didn't have enough distance lighting to see the depth of a pile of sand the maintenance department had left at the highway edge. The fairing blocked the close in...

I'm riding a recumbent ez1-sc on a 9 mile one way commute with a hill on one end. The bike has a 250w 36v 206 rpm motor in a 20" rear wheel, overvolted to 48v from 4 (used) SLA 7.5 ah batteries. Controller comes limited to 11 amps, measurements with an inline watt meter. 4 ah is about what a...

I've started a project with my sons and youth in our community called the Solar Garage. I want to teach them about solar PV through experience. Our starting application was electric lighting the garage and recording a PV electricty production log. We started cheap with a 20w panel on a...

My experience agrees with checking the spokes and wheel true. My first wheel came advertised as "ready to ride" from China supplier and I was a noob and didn't check the spokes. After 10 miles two spokes popped. I had no spares, and LBS couldn't find any to match as they had little experience...