Zoot Katz
100 kW
Too bad they're running stinky two-smokers.
Josh Hadar Metal Designs
(They look like a bitch to ride too.)
Josh Hadar Metal Designs
(They look like a bitch to ride too.)
Too Cool Art Bikes
- Thread starter Zoot Katz
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dnmun
1 PW
i wonder if he makes big money off those things. makes it 'art' so people gotta have it.
i just got a cyclone motor and throttle working for an 'artist' guy who uses it in a sun trike as a middrive. then he builds a bench seat in back and builds a big bunny suit around it for burning man. with big plate sized glowing eyes and sprays water out a nozzle in front using a high pressure pump in pulses with lights around the spray. amazing what you can do on 3 wheels.
his throttle went fritz because he kept beating on it to make it work because he had a bad connection in the switch.
i used the honeywell SS495A2 from mouser since the SS495 is backordered so far out. specs seemed the same, with the biggest response of the honeywell ratiometric type hall sensor. 3.125mV/G. rick gave me the clue about the different types, and sensitivities based on the type of magnet and number in the throttle.
first time i saw the cyclone controller close up, they don't believe in caps, and only about 17-19 poles it seemed, on the stator and the rotor, two huge power resistors sitting against the case to soak up the voltage, looked like 20W resistors even. halls sensors sit in a little plastic semi circular tower on the surface of the controller pcb, and the rotor turns just next to it since the pcb is attached to the underside of the end cover. i thought this was all potted in on the cyclone motor. maybe not a cyclone, but it runs again, he is so happy.
i just got a cyclone motor and throttle working for an 'artist' guy who uses it in a sun trike as a middrive. then he builds a bench seat in back and builds a big bunny suit around it for burning man. with big plate sized glowing eyes and sprays water out a nozzle in front using a high pressure pump in pulses with lights around the spray. amazing what you can do on 3 wheels.
his throttle went fritz because he kept beating on it to make it work because he had a bad connection in the switch.
i used the honeywell SS495A2 from mouser since the SS495 is backordered so far out. specs seemed the same, with the biggest response of the honeywell ratiometric type hall sensor. 3.125mV/G. rick gave me the clue about the different types, and sensitivities based on the type of magnet and number in the throttle.
first time i saw the cyclone controller close up, they don't believe in caps, and only about 17-19 poles it seemed, on the stator and the rotor, two huge power resistors sitting against the case to soak up the voltage, looked like 20W resistors even. halls sensors sit in a little plastic semi circular tower on the surface of the controller pcb, and the rotor turns just next to it since the pcb is attached to the underside of the end cover. i thought this was all potted in on the cyclone motor. maybe not a cyclone, but it runs again, he is so happy.
Zoot Katz
100 kW
I helped pedal-power charge the batteries for the static lighting and video projecter on a monster art trike at athe last Illuminares Lantern Procession organised by our Public Dreams Society
Ironically, the juice generator was the first ebike built by justin_le and fellow students at UBC.
The trike has a bio-deisel Honda generator and solar panels aboard too. It's a locally made machine for transporting to Burning Man.
(Belt driven, front-wheel-drive, delta trike with the motor mounted on the fork. Iron tires.)
The Mondo Spider is another associated local project that doesn't roll.
. . . but it fukin' rocks.
Ironically, the juice generator was the first ebike built by justin_le and fellow students at UBC.
The trike has a bio-deisel Honda generator and solar panels aboard too. It's a locally made machine for transporting to Burning Man.
(Belt driven, front-wheel-drive, delta trike with the motor mounted on the fork. Iron tires.)
The Mondo Spider is another associated local project that doesn't roll.
. . . but it fukin' rocks.
Reid Welch
1 MW
Beautiful works and link-citations and images.
Mankind Triumph-ant-art...without the brand name.
Thanks for sharing these inspirational things, all of them, Z,
r.
Mankind Triumph-ant-art...without the brand name.
Thanks for sharing these inspirational things, all of them, Z,
r.
