Razor E200 stock motor/controller

[saul]

I've only seen a few mods for these, and I just had one fall in my possession

At first I was thinking of just replacing the sla's with a couple 6s 5ah lipos in parallel, but that would be just 25.6V Fully Charged.

So i'm wondering what the Max voltage the stock controller and motor can handle?
Stock its 24V with two sla 7ah batteries in series, but I think I saw one post mention the stock esc can take 36v?

if it can handle the higher voltage I think a few 4s 5ah packs, 2s2p, at 33.6 fully charged would be a lot more fun, and more torque

 

[Kin]

If the E200 uses a brushed motorr as I expect, remember that the failure mode will be the motor going crazy fast. That's all just like be prepared so you don't burn a friction hole in the carpet as I did when I was playing around with seeing how high some cheap generic electric scooter controller could go.

My experience has been the 24V ones could not necessarily be safely used with 36V, but the 36V controllers could be used at 48V. I think that was an incredibly low sampling but makes sense insofar as 35V is a very common capacitor rating, and the next common rating is 60V (but 50V also exists...so my theory is very flimsy.)

I would not run a capacitor near its rating, but that's one way to figure out if your 24V has a chance of being run at 36V (open up the controller and check what the capacitor labeling says.)