+1 for Lectriccycles. LeGrand knows his stuff and is on top of things.tomjasz said:Lectric cycles. Answers calls and emails daily and prices are competitive. No wait for support on every Chinese holiday.
DavidD said:I saw a few mentions of BMSBattery.com already, but no one mentioned their shipping rates and speed.
Has anyone had experience with their shipping? Are their rates and prices reasonable?
I'll be shipping to the USA, and I assume they're in China so I'm a little worried about super long shipping times.
Ykick said:DavidD said:I saw a few mentions of BMSBattery.com already, but no one mentioned their shipping rates and speed.
Has anyone had experience with their shipping? Are their rates and prices reasonable?
I'll be shipping to the USA, and I assume they're in China so I'm a little worried about super long shipping times.
My experience buying a motor and charger from BMS on separate orders is that shipping charge to NYC doubled the cart price.
However, shipping time is/was better than expected. About a week each order.
But language is a HUGE barrier and potential pitfall dealing with majority of Chinese vendors.
The 400W charger did arrive with my desired voltage setting. It's working as expected, no problems.
I asked a few questions about the Q128H motor and some controller options but got very confusing responses so I just bought the loose motor and sorted out a controller state side.
Be advised, adding a seemingly $8-$10 rim to BMS hub motor order bumps the cost of shipping up another $20-$30 IIRC. For that difference you can buy a good eyelet rim for about $30 shipped, 13/14ga butted spokes from Danscomp for $22 shipped and build a much better & stronger motor wheel yourself.
Might as well learn wheel building/truing because anybody who rides hub motors for any significant length of time will eventually deal with spokes/rims. Other than EM3 (Paul) Chinese wheel builds are generally horrible and only intended for riders under 140lbs.
Read his specs. He uses 2C 18650's. AH times C rate equals max discahrge rating, so 10 x 2 =20A. He seems to know what he's doing, and doing it right. Putting a 40A discharge bms on a 10ah 2C pack would just kill it prematurely. if you want a high discharge small ah pack, you need high discharge rated batteries, not 2c rated ones. Think 20s 20C rc lipo or very expensive other cells.If you want a bms on it, you can get 80A bms's for it fairly reasonable.Rafe if you are out their listen to me, I'm sure people would love to buy a 72v 10ah pack that can discharge at 30-40a continuously.. The BMS limiter on that pack is a HUGE turnoff.
amberwolf said:There's a few posts that mention them and/or discuss them.
http://www.endless-sphere.com/forums/search.php?keywords=electricrider&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search
wesnewell said:You probably won't find many reviews because they are so expensive and decptive no one buys from them. Being from TX and wanting to support home folks, I looked into them a few years back.
LockH said:Ahoy Texas! Have you not read your American-Statesman lately?
http://www.statesman.com/news/lifes...ycle-puts-extra-oomph-in-every-pedal-s/ngcq5/
I know you have a 1000W motor and that's all i can find. I don't know which motor it is, and I don't know what battery pack you have. Since I don't know specifics, all I can do is tell you how to get more power to the motor using your controller. It's call a shunt mod. And this is how you do it.EwanG said:Sorry to hear that. In that case, is there a legitimate US (if not Texas) based store that offers a 72v rear hub kit and battery that you can recommend? I really want to find something that can get me up the hill at the end of my ride a little faster than 8-10mph.
EwanG said:LockH said:Ahoy Texas! Have you not read your American-Statesman lately?
http://www.statesman.com/news/lifes...ycle-puts-extra-oomph-in-every-pedal-s/ngcq5/
Unfortunately only the first couple sentences are viewable and the rest are behind a paywall. Since I don't live in Austin I'm not sure it's worth paying for the one article. Any chance they publish elsewhere or you can summarize what the rest details?