casainho said:Testing TSDZ2 and LCD3 flexible OpenSource firmwares
So, just before the day that I would ride 75km on the mountain, where everyone says it is a tough ride, I did "burn" my TSDZ2 motor as I did explain here. Knowing that we would go to a very high point of the mountain and would be really bad if something would fail on my ebike, I though if I should trust on the flexible OpenSource firmwares of my own development. I really wanted to use the advanced features of this firmwares because I needed to optimize the battery range.... and so I did!!
The ride was perfect, TSDZ2 always working smoothly and strong. It took me about 6 hours and I took with me 2 batteries, in total of 900 watts/hours and I used 650 watts/hour. Most of time I limited on LCD3 the power to be 250W or even at 150W, because a bigger value was hard to drive on the very narrow paths and also I wanted to go in group with the other riders without electric bicycles. Using that low power was great because I got a very good battery range and also TSDZ2 did not get hot. But I also took advantage of the max power possible from the motor, and sometimes I used the max power and I was able to climb the very sharp paths were other professionals could not.
So to resume: I do trust well on TSDZ2 and LCD3 flexible OpenSource firmwares and the advanced features were very important for this long and hard ride, where I had to optimize battery range as also I prefer a constant electric power assist unlike with original firmware that gives variable power.
Very good!
Because of holidays I think I will install these nice features in October.
Power defenition I hope is a very good tool.
Keep going.
Thanks