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[jonescg]

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Practice session at Wanneroo Raceway. Pottz was having a blast - the tyres are shagged but the bike is handling very nicely now. He was putting in consistent 65s, so with some decent tyres I reckon that could get as low as the 63s.

We're going to be up on Sunday, so come along and have a stickybeak! Some awesome racing will be on show too. Wayne Maxwell was doing some smooth 55.6s today

 

[Rodney64]

Ill bring on up my Raptor with your 40C 24s battery in and see if it gets some looks. Will you be at the same place Chris.

 

[jonescg]

Ill bring on up my Raptor with your 40C 24s battery in and see if it gets some looks. Will you be at the same place Chris.

Probably directly across from it on the grassed area. We'll have a marquee and an aluminium bike stand.

 

[jonescg]

So Mike O'Hanlon had some very exciting news to share at Wanneroo Raceway today:


Keen to come racing?

 

[jonescg]

Some pretty exciting news for West Australian EV converters - the Department of Transport has made their website SO MUCH EASIER to follow for sourcing information on vehicle modification, individually constructed vehicles and ADR compliance.

http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/licensing/modify-or-construct-a-vehicle.asp

This is of particular interest to me, as I have every intention of registering Voltron Evo for road legal use

I don't need to do a huge amount of work to get it to comply - just finding things like headlights, tail light units, turn signals and a kick stand with kill switch. Oh, and a Speedometer!



In order to get this to fit, I will need to re-design the dash cluster. SplinterOz had some success with carbon fibre, which I might try to emulate, but I think a PCB with header pins for all the signal wires is going to be required first.

BUT, first things first - time to ship the bike over to Sydney for the FINAL round of the Aussie Electric Superbikes! Going to be a big weekend, so come on down and check it out! November 21st to the 23rd. We race first thing in the morning and last thing in the evening.

 

[dingoEsride]

That's good news Chris, I have a Yami R1 sidestand with a switch built in for a warning light that it's down which could easily be modded for a killer, I won't be using it so yours if you want

 

[RIPPERTON]

the GPS speedo price tag is a bit hefty and routing a magnet and sensor isn't that hard plus for the $150 you also get temp sensor ect.

http://www.trailtech.net/712-402

The R1 didn't do to well at SMP yesterday. Did 1 lap before the gremlins showed up.

 

[jonescg]

Nah, I want the analogue dial. I like the look of it, and it's got lots of other features in there too.

Bugger about your machine. Hopefully not insurmountable gremlins.

 

[pottz]

Hi guys, What a last round and whole year we have had.

Chris your amazing. You actually did it. You built a bike from scratch and out of the box in its first year it won the championship.
Well done and what an amazing bike you have built.
Thanks for letting me be a part of it.

The last round went like clockwork for us. Out of the box the bike was running pretty well. We had issues of it cutting out in t1 every couple laps but surprisingly I got good at doing a one hand reset whilst still cranked over in the turn doing some ridiculous speed and not loosing too much time. By the last race it seemed Chris had sorted it.

Having ridden this track once before and now having a bike that I can turn corners on we were straight on the pace in first practice and immediately feeling confident. Later in the afternoon we fitted new tyres and with the extra grip and feel confidence grew.

There is nothing harder to beat than a rider feeling good and confident in the bike. Qualifying was a one lap only dash as the batteries were getting warm and we broke the track record of 1:48.Something and dipped into the 1:47's to put it on pole.

From there on it was a one horse race and we wrapped up the championship with one race to go. The lap record was continuing to fall and in the last race I had a last lap crack at it and did a 1:42.80 giving the record a fair nudge and finally showing some of the bikes true potential.

It was a very hot weekend and it was great to be riding such a low maintenance bike, just tyre warmers and charging all weekend. Our pit garage was relaxed and stress free all weekend which was perfect. All we had to do was keep cool.

Thanks to O'HANLON ELECTRIC MOTORSPORT, KANEG, PANIC, TRAKDAYZ and absolutely everyone who helped on the bike, it's been great to meet a heap of good people this year. Thanks to the other teams and racers for the competition and fun racing. The EV community has been great and we have received So much help and support for from a lot of great people. Every team has worked extremely hard on the bikes to get them on the grid when possible. Congrats to Danny Ripperton for runner up and Jason Morris for 3rd place it's been a pleasure meeting and racing you guys, well done...... One final thing......
Yeehah!! We did it.

 

[jonescg]

Nice first post Pottz Yeah, what a great year

 

[jonescg]

There are a stack of good photos out there, including one of Pottz cranked over in turn 5, but here's a couple from the day anyway:





And if you skip to about 6 hours, 39 minutes you can see the last race of the weekend:
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1658248/events/3597213

Pottz had already stitched up the championship so he was just messing around for the first half of the race. He put in a fast effort for the last lap, setting the track record. Watch at 6 h, 42 min 10 sec for a little wheel stand out of T12, and laying black lines at 6 h, 43 min, 50 sec

 

[RIPPERTON]

LOL watch me shake my head at 6m 42s .00
I nearly ran up the back of Pottz when he slotted in front of me.

 

[Rodney64]

Ripperton its all part of the day. The situation could of been Reversed

 

[pottz]

Finally got my act together and put a 1/2 decent video together from the last round.
Some great racing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6uq0lEqiHM&feature=youtu.be

 

[jateureka]

.... Pottz took a mates Gixxer600 for a couple of laps, but stalled it cause he forgot to use the clutch :lol:

Cracked up laughing when I read this!

Nice Vid.

 

[gplate]

Watts next?

 

[jonescg]

In order of what will make us go faster -


1. Design and have fabricated a new chro-moly swingarm which will take a K8 GSXR1000 rear wheel. This way we can fit some proper tyres on it, because right now we're spinning up on the exit of every turn.
2. Some magnesium wheels. This will shed about 10 kg right off the bat. Carbon is a bit over the top, and expensive.
3. Re-design the 6 kWh pack so that it sits lower in the bike. We still have a fairly high CoG, and this will only get worse when we move to lighter wheels. By dropping the pack down to the original height we should gain more stability under brakes.
4. Fit a new tank cover so it's a bit more comfortable than the current tub.
5. Re-route the wiring harness so it's less prone to EMI. We had some more controller faults which are most likely due to noise.
6. Fit a new dash which includes a speedometer, odometer and Coulomb counter.

A few other cosmetics can be tweaked, but for now its looking pretty good.

 

[Stevil_Knevil]

7. Fit a new #1 plate!!

That should at least make it look faster

 

[jonescg]

eRoadRacing rules have been updated - bikes are allowed to run up to 700 V systems

It's great to be able to institute change through demonstration

I'd love to put Voltron up against a Brammo RR and a Lightning, and it would be very interesting to see who would win a race. But I think we have a series to grow here in Australia. Maybe a second bike could take up the challenge?

 

[RIPPERTON]

So was it Voltron that proved the 700v concept to eRoadRacing ?
More importantly the eFXC rules havnt changed so I will be jumping on the 700v bandwagon too at some stage.

 

[Arlo1]

Is it just me or is 700v not uber scary?

 

[jonescg]

I'd like to think that Voltron proved it can be done well, and safely. If the right precautions and isolation are provided, 700 is just a number. With today's inverter and motor technology dictating the most efficient and powerful systems be around the 700 V mark, it's the only way to extract serious power. Maximum battery current is about 225 A - easily achieved with 32 mm2 conductors.

Arlin, it doesn't scare me. But whenever the pack is out and open you treat it with respect. Anyway, unless it's inside the bike and turned on, there's only a maximum of 175 V anywhere in the system.

 

[RIPPERTON]

On the subject of making racing horsepower, If its not high voltage, its high current.
My bike runs 900 battery amps on full throttle but if something wasn't tight, it would catch fire real quick.
So maybe high voltage is safer than high current generally speaking.
And yes if we are going to change the racing world we have to have everything going for us which means taking a few risks.

 

[jonescg]

http://www.businessnews.com.au/article/Energy-innovators-seek-edge-with-technology-SPECIAL-REPORT

Yay! Voltron Motorcycles is officially a company!

 

[jateureka]

Congratulations!