E-Bike System

[mistercrash]

Well if it already has a LVC set for 20.5V + or - 1V, then it's all good. Even if it cuts out at 19.5V, that's 3.25V per cell on 6S so I'm ok with that. He already knows that once you loose power, no more throttle, he's pretty good at it from running his E-Revo since he was 5.

[mistercrash]

getting close to 2800 km on the scooter. Man it is cold!
But I have some very good winter wear to keep me warm so all is fine. But the end of the season is coming fast, I had my first taste of riding a scooter in snow yesterday night. Snow was falling heavily last night but since the ground is still not frozen, it would semi melt into a slushy mess on the pavement. I could get some studded winter tires for the scooter but I don't want to venture into this kind of craziness. Although there are some brave souls in Toronto who will be doing it
The forecast is sun for the rest of the week so I should be good to use my scooter this week and maybe I will have to store it for the rest of winter in hopes that I can get it out again at the end of March for a new fun season.
Next spring will be exciting as I plan on upgrading to a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery. I already started prepping the scooter for it, I modified the shunts inside the controller which gave the scooter tons of torque, I also changed the phase wires to 10 gauge instead of the 14 gauge that was there. I did the full mod, starting from inside the motor. What a dirty PITA job that was!
Next will be the battery wires, I'll go with 8 gauge on this one. Now I still have to decide about the voltage on that battery, stay with 48V and be legal or go with 60V and have some fun and pretend to be legal.

Now let's be clear on what's legal here and what I have for performance right now. Being legal means a top speed of 32 km/h on flat ground. Right now with tired 48V 34ah SLAs in the bitter cold, I go 45 km/h on flat ground. So I'm not legal even with the stock crappy battery. Going to 48V 30ah LiFePO would get me closer to 50 km/h top speed, maybe 48 or 49. I would get more than double the range I have now which I would very much like. Going to 60V 30ah would probably get me to 55+ km/h. Not crazy fast, enough to keep up with traffic if need be but enough to get in trouble with some anal cop also. I still have time to think about it, but right now, 60V sounds really good to me

[JERRY2KONE]

I doubt seriously that the police have the time to bother with that kind of crap, but to be on the safe side I would check what the fine might be if you got caught, and they actually felt like taking action against you. I would still go for more voltage and have a good time driving it with room to spare in the power aspect of the ride. You have done well so far and adding a little pep is a good thing. Following your experience has been informative and entertaining. I plan to keep watching, but its been great up to now. Thank you for sharing with all of us.

[mistercrash]

Glad you enjoyed it. I sure hijacked BrianG's thread good eh!

There's a bit of a gray area concerning the law with pedal assist bikes and scooters. A loophole that some cops like to take advantage of. If they find you running without the pedals for example, they will assume that it is now a motorcycle and not a pedal assist scooter so they give you tickets for not wearing the proper helmet (if you just have a bicycle helmet) a ticket for not having the proper license, a ticket for no registration, a ticket for no insurance. It ads up to quite a sizable amount. Now they are trying to stick you with a whole bunch of infractions but it doesn't hold in court as a few have found. Just because the pedals were not on doesn't mean that the pedal assist scooter magically becomes a motorcycle. So people get out of court without paying the fines. But they did loose a day's pay and wasted their time going to court.

Today is a bit of a sad day. I noticed ice patches on the streets so the scooter stayed in the garage and I took the car to work this afternoon. First time using a car to go to work since May. And you know what, driving a car is frikkin' boring.