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  1. anotherkiwi

    Lightweight Trekking Bike Build

    What windings do they have? You asked that question for sure! Then we just need to know if it will handle 44.4 V at 17-18 Amps... :eek:
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Time for a Margaret Thatcher quote refresher course? Right! There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. Death of a nation in 17 words right there... One for the wicked witch: Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And French and Portuguese and Spanish and Czech and Italian and... The EU still has mainstream bike manufacturers as well as the high end ones and who employ people who have jobs and who pay taxes etc. etc. The UK only has a tiny high end craftsman bike industry. Intersport is riding on the...
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    Need to put my bike on a diet, suggestions?

    I make mine - kind of like kit vs. Bosch ready built really :rolleyes: I think my salad tastes better than the Bosch and Yamaha salads...:rolleyes: Maybe because I have a top secret vinaigrette recipe, I am the Paul Newman of vinaigrette :D And, are you seated? We actually grow some of the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Apparently California is making so much solar electricity that the grid is melting so they are paying Arizona to take it off their hands... How about an on/off switch? If you disconnect the panels from the grid they won't overload it... Use the electricity to desalinate water for your drought...
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    Most powerful eBike for long uphill journeys?

    Getting back on subject: I have been playing with https://www.doogal.co.uk/RouteElevation.php This is my typical ride to the city: Start altitude: 6 metres End altitude: 6 metres Maximum altitude: 134 metres Minimum altitude: 1 metres Distance: 68.2 km <- why I needed a 720 Ah - 100 km battery...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And the IP number of the main WinXP computer controlling the vessel is - oops not supposed to know that either... :p
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    Whyte Clifton opinions please.

    Would that be with a 1.4 kg motor perchance? :rolleyes: We are chomping at the bit waiting for your appraisal of that motor.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Good analogy, back in the day of the moon landing a lot of calculations were done with a pencil on the backs of enveloppes. "While Nasa was at the bleeding edge, the 60s was a time when chemists still relied on logarithm tables, and engineers carried slide rules." (source...
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    Most powerful eBike for long uphill journeys?

    Yes batteries may get lighter but copper isn't going to unless you are aware of some new physics that has slipped under the radar? So motors won't lose much more than they just did.
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    Charging laptop battery to 80%?

    May have. I swapped out the Vaio battery for a cheap Chinese clone and the only thing it's BMS could do was turn the charger off when the battery was full.
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    Diy solderless 18650 battery kit.

    I would agree with you but: - I am not drawing more than 6 Amps per cell, they only get to about 50° C at 15 Amps per cell - I am going to use nickel strips not the stainless provided so much less resistance in my interconnects Why use 30 Amp and not 15 then? Because I hate sag! And they are...
  13. anotherkiwi

    Friction drive?

    You're new here aren't you? :rolleyes:
  14. anotherkiwi

    Looking for a very light weight Step through bike

    Very light or step through, choose one or the other... Step through bikes require stronger frames which means more weight. Much lighter bikes also tend to be more expensive than the Woosh.
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    Most powerful eBike for long uphill journeys?

    To my inexperienced eye that looks very much like a Bosch marketing graph. I bet they got Dieter from the graphics department to build by ear it in Adobe Illustrator... :rolleyes:
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    Charging laptop battery to 80%?

    Balancing 2P is going to be a lot easier than 5P, you have a 50/50 chance that one cell is bad in each parallel string and you will know straight away you have a duff battery. I would suggest that you forget you know anything about 18650 charging and get on with enjoying your new laptop battery...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That is a hell of a lot of strawberries! :eek:
  18. anotherkiwi

    Charging laptop battery to 80%?

    For £50 use it till it stops working then recycle... :D That is what i did with my Vaio batteries for 10 years.
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    News: Wheelchair tandem completes 54m London to Brighton cycle ride

    That is the best real life test of the Shimano Steps system I have seen. I don't blame it for stalling on a 16% climb! I bet it would have made it with better gearing well done Boxer!