Building a new Ebike

[snellemin]

Finally getting around installing the Sabvoton.

[snellemin]

Below are my settings with the Sabvoton controller. With 18s lipo I still hit 50mph with the flux weaking enabled. Before it took me 21s lipo to do so.

[JERRY2KONE]

I see you are still working this project. I would love to have one of those bikes. Our son built an E-bike over the summer out of a GMC mountain bike. He put two pie wheels on it and managed about 50mph with a 40 mile range. Not bad for his first project.

[snellemin]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

I see you are still working this project. I would love to have one of those bikes. Our son built an E-bike over the summer out of a GMC mountain bike. He put two pie wheels on it and managed about 50mph with a 40 mile range. Not bad for his first project.

Sweet man. Post up some pics of the bike.

[JERRY2KONE]

I will try to get a few shots this weekend before we have to deliver the bike to him in Goose Creek SC the following weekend. He is in Nuke school and has permission to drive it on base. I'm sure that he will get a lot of attention from his Navy buddies after they see him flying all over the compound. It's a pretty basic setup, but he has gone through improvements along the way and he had a lot of fun learning the tricks of the trade. He has front and rear disc breaks and goes through pads like crazy. It was fun just watching his progression from one phase to another.

[snellemin]

I cleaned up the wiring a bit on my bike. Shortened the phase wires and did some serious crimping on those connectors. The thin insulation on the Cromotor phase wires had slits in them. I'm guessing from heat over time. I just sleeved them with some new heat shrink and tidied everything back up. I messed with the setting in the Sabvoton and CA. I still have that issue with the status screen jumping, but the bike runs smoother now. Temperature was better today and got to 61mph on 18s lipo.

[nitrostarter]

That's pretty awesome, 60+ on a bike. Congrats man.

[snellemin]

Originally Posted by nitrostarter

That's pretty awesome, 60+ on a bike. Congrats man.

Thanks man.