Recent content by strantor

Thanks, Yeah I think those are ones they put in the Plug-in hybrids (Energi). I found some listings for those cells and they also said 1.5lbs. The ones I'm looking at are just the regular non-plug-in cells and are visibly smaller. Wherever I read 1.5lbs I must have been looking at the Energi...

I'm considering buying the battery out of a local wrecked 2014 Ford Fusion Hybrid (not Energi) to power a golf cart. I believe these same 5AH Li-Ion cells are used in the C-max (not Energi) and (maybe) Honda Insight. I can't seem to find a good source of data on them. I've pieced together a...

Amberwolf, if you would be so kind... I would appreciate it if you could delete your quote of me. I relied in arrogance. I have been drinking. I deleted it because I realized my fault immediately. EDIT: Thank you Amberwolf, and I apologize for any offense I may have have caused you. Please do...

Amberwolf, you make a good point. And you got me a little flustered for a minute with the wiki page. But I get it, I'm not the first and I won't be the last. However I would challenge you to come here to Houston (outside deep downtown Houston) and ride your ebike here and then try to argue the...

baleeted

I'm looking to build a multi-KW ebike and I've got the OCC bike, a mars 0708 motor, and 15 dewalt XRP 18V batteries (info pertaining to battery viability pending). I only lack the controller, which I plan to build myself... but that's another story. I'm wondering how fast is too fast for this...

I took my kids to the Shell Eco Marathon this past weekend. From the radio ads I heard, it sounded like there was going to be a bunch of prototype electric, hybrid, and super-sipper gas cars competing. I was imagining sleek engineered products from companies in, or trying to get into the...

Yeah I'm aware of all that. The FED is something that's been of interest to me for quite a while, along with fractional reserve banking and other things. However, I want to truly understand the FACTS of everything involved. I don't like taking things at face value and repeating them - showing my...

Hi guys, I haven't been around here in a while. Not doing anything e-bike related. Last time I visited, I found that there are a few people on this forum (namely Sunder) who are very knowledgeable in world economics. I'm hoping someone can clear this up for me. Is Alan Grayson referring to new...

i think I've got a pretty good educated guess about why you lean a 2 wheeled bike to turn - there's a vector of force downward from gravity, and vector of force sideways from centrifugal force of the turn; these 2 vectors combine and create a vector that points down and out of the turn. You...

good call. I've bought cheap chinese tools before and regretted it almost every time. I get in a jam, no money, need a tool, can't afford it, and a little devil whispers in my ear to go to Harbor Freight (cheap Chinese crap tools store) and just get a cheap one - "All it needs to do is just this...

I posted this on another forum and got some pretty interesting feedback there as well. I thought I would share it with you guys:

So HP was intended to be averaged over time? Instead of just HP, should it be HPH, like KWH, since we use HP to represent instantaneous power? While in my quest for for "how much power can a human produce" I ran across someone doing math for the power output of the World's Strongest Man, world...

Yes I see I wasn't very clear. My meaning wasn't that we should strive to generate more energy to power our everyday routines, but that, if we were able to make ourselves aware of just how much energy we waste, by comparing what we use to what we are capable of producing, then we might have a...

I've grown up around this term "horsepower" and I know what it means, but I guess I never really had a full grasp of what was going on around me. My thinking has always been that there's no way that 1 horsepower is equal to the amount of power that 1 horse can produce. I remember reading that...