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  1. strantor

    How much do '13-'16 Ford hybrid cells weigh?

    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...
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    How much do '13-'16 Ford hybrid cells weigh?

    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...
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    Shell Eco Marathon

    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...
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    How fast could a Schwinn OCC chopper bike go safely?

    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...
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    Shell Eco Marathon

    baleeted
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    How fast could a Schwinn OCC chopper bike go safely?

    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...
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    Shell Eco Marathon

    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...
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    26 trillion dollars lent by the FED?

    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...
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    26 trillion dollars lent by the FED?

    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...
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    Physics of leaning in 2 & 3 wheeled vehicles

    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...
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    Affordable drill press - can chuck column play be removed?

    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...
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    Watts & HP - how puny are you?

    I posted this on another forum and got some pretty interesting feedback there as well. I thought I would share it with you guys:
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    Watts & HP - how puny are you?

    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...
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    Watts & HP - how puny are you?

    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...
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    Watts & HP - how puny are you?

    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...
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    New e-motor company: opinions needed

    I would try to find out where the company is going, what their future plans are.. The motor you describe is a pretty niche item IMO - Too small for a car, and too big for a sane person's e-bike.; I suspect that the majority of the people in America who would be interested in it are already on...
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    Affordable drill press - can chuck column play be removed?

    Oh, what I'd give to have a lathe (and room to use it). Even if it were rusted into one giant piece, I would take it.
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    FreezerWave, Appliance freezes food in one minute. [idea]

    Trying to win a diamond mountain bike? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haan3Tz0SJk
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    I've got 90lbs of rice, a pallet of bottled water, and 200rds for my rifle - that's the extent of my "prepper" activities so far. For now, I would be OK if another hurricane hit; that's about it. I went online to order some ammo a couple of weeks ago, when I heard that the price of guns & ammo...
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    I respectfully disagree. I totally agree. I won't waste time arguing over who's at fault; that's just a distraction from the fact. The way I see it, Partisan parties are for civilians; in the government, everybody's on the same side - the side where the money is. Policies for sale to the...
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    I agree with everything you said there. The problem lies in setting up this place way back in, while simultaneously existing in the still currently functional society. The land I'm looking at is not >1 tankfull away from houston, because I will have to go there regularly, after work some days...
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    thanks, you gave me food for thought , AND a suggestion I asked for. i think you & samtexas are onto something about the vehicles. samtexas, No, I wasn't here for katrina. I was a submarine school in Connecticut. I saw the images on TV but I didn't live through it so I guess that's why it...
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    I do know how to make ethanol though. I've done it before, and ran small engines on it. if I got an E85 platform or carbureted, I could keep driving long after everybody else is fighting over kid's bicycles. Batteries poses a good point I hadn't thought of. However, by the time my batteries fail...
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    what vehicle would you want if/when society collapses?

    In the face of all I'm learning about the economy and the true state of things, I'm thinking that the doomsday scenario might just be likely. I have started taking steps to be able to put food on the table in a scenario that does not involve money. I'm looking for a piece of land so I can start...
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    Affordable drill press - can chuck column play be removed?

    I wanted a drill press and looking through the stores (in my price range) all I saw was low quality crap. We have drill presses at work that are absolutely the best, and they are >30-40yrs old. I got the idea to find an old drill press from the 70's or earlier and I ended up getting a broken one...
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