For the longest time I was going to get the Eonyx pack from electricrider.com but I decided to stick with the milwaukee packs. Mostly because of cost ($1600 for the pack I wanted) and partly because their 20 ah pack is huge! It would be tough to figure a way to mount it to my Giant Revive semi-recumbent. I have two electric bikes and it made sense to keep with the milwaukee setup. I can split up the pack to run both bikes at the same time or combine them to run the Revive.
So... it's great! With 15ah on tap, I feel invincible! I haven't really pushed it yet-- mostly because out of the 10 packs, 4 of them are not so strong. Combining weak and strong packs is usually a problem as the weak packs drain faster than the strong ones which make them even easier to damage and makes the whole pack inefficient. I unwittingly solved this problem by making the new cable with lower resistance than the old cable (i previously posted video of how to make this cable). The low resistance cable lets the good packs output more current than the old ones. In this way the old packs are protected. They actually kind of help the good packs. At the end of a ride, the old packs have higher voltage than the new ones where normally the reverse would be true. This is a good way of continuing to use older or weaker packs.
In the last video I show the safety device (key ring and hook) that saved my controller. I was riding, my tire blew and I wiped out. The battery bag flew off the bike but since it was attached with the hook, it didn't come completely off. If it did, it probably would have ripped the battery wires out of the controller.
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So... it's great! With 15ah on tap, I feel invincible! I haven't really pushed it yet-- mostly because out of the 10 packs, 4 of them are not so strong. Combining weak and strong packs is usually a problem as the weak packs drain faster than the strong ones which make them even easier to damage and makes the whole pack inefficient. I unwittingly solved this problem by making the new cable with lower resistance than the old cable (i previously posted video of how to make this cable). The low resistance cable lets the good packs output more current than the old ones. In this way the old packs are protected. They actually kind of help the good packs. At the end of a ride, the old packs have higher voltage than the new ones where normally the reverse would be true. This is a good way of continuing to use older or weaker packs.
In the last video I show the safety device (key ring and hook) that saved my controller. I was riding, my tire blew and I wiped out. The battery bag flew off the bike but since it was attached with the hook, it didn't come completely off. If it did, it probably would have ripped the battery wires out of the controller.
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) they are okay in my book. They are keeping our troubled local economy alive at the very least and emolis are about the sweetest thing this side of Vermont maple syrup. :wink: 
