robohead said:brumbrum said:A mate of mine on here 'Jonboy' uses a hall sensor and magnet attached to the rear brake lever on the handle bar, i tried it out on sunday and it feels very natural and progressive like normal brake behaviour, i was very very impressed.
He just took apart a hall throttle and wired the sensor onto the regen cable afaik. Having the rear brake on the left hand side of course. Try pm'ing him if you are interested.
That's cool, I however I did not want the breaks directly tied to regen. On big hills the regen is helpful but you don't always want use break pads at the same time. So independent systems is my route. But the concept is mostly the same. So I might reach out later to probe about the min/max regen settings JB is using. I found a few left hand thumb throttles last night for cheap ($6-$7 bucks) that might work pretty well and would probably be safer vs a full twist throttle.
-cheers
Chris, there is still time to change for a left hand thumb throttle to put regen. However, there is a really nice feature with adaptto controllers: you can variate the regen using the same throttle that you use to apply power!
Here how it goes:
1. Press and HOLD (really important) the regen button with you left hand . It will disable the throttle .
2. With your right hand, let the throttle go back to origin. Now your throttle is in regen function
3. Now, when you turn the throttle, it acts like a variable regen.
Also, the cool thing is that you can change the function to do only normal regen with the on/off switch whenever you want.
Let me know if that solution suits you.