Trouble @ 50 and changing it up

so i took the bike out for a ride the other day, and was cruising along and then all of a sudden, bamm! No power… my damn woodway key had come out while I was driving!!! Thankfully I was able to find it but ended up having to push the bike home for the remaining […]

Fully Charged 2020 – Austin!

So im writing this now after finally getting home and recovering (mostly) from such a great event!!! Got to meet all the cool people that I wanted to meet! Also got to a bunch of signatures on the bike Got to talk to so many people from all over the world (Germany, Nederlands, UK, Australia […]

Really quick update!

She’s alive!!! I know that it’s in reverse, this was the first run! It is now corrected and runs the right way! The cells aren’t sagging too much and the temps are right where they should be. I will publish more later, it’s 1 am and I have to be up for work in a […]

2020 Update

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… oh wait wrong book… Just a couple of updates for everyone, Yes im still alive, yes i have a job, and yes im married… now i can start to get back in the habit of working on this bike and keeping this updated! 1. It’s […]

The New Motor

So I recently ordered a new motor for the bike. I ordered myself a new Motenergy ME1507 (http://motenergy.com/mepmbrmo.html) which is to replace my mystery ME1117. For those of you that follow me, know that I was having trouble with the ME1117, and the Sin/Cosine Encoder. I am not going to give up on it. I […]

Im BACK ;)

Well, i know its been a while… (ok 2 years or so) but i have a really good reason! you ready to hear it??? well first i moved house’s and then bought a house to actually store my projects! and then i got married to my wonderful assistant! plus i also moved jobs twice! But […]

Planned break

Well guys I have to move out of my apartment so all r&d will cease and desist till I return mid march. I’m hoping when I get back to really buckle down and finish this off! Then comes paint and bodywork and then off to the races! 

Encoder De-Code

Well I finally got a little time to work on the bike and try and figure out the problems. The encoder is working just fine. I collected some samples from it using an arduino uno and a bunch of alligator clips connected to 5v, Gnd, Sin, and Cosine. I now just need to look at […]

Happy Anniversary :)

Well im writing just to make mention of the fact that this is the anniversary of the creation of this wordpress page 🙂 I would like to thank all 949 of you that looked at the site and those of you that made suggestions or comments! This coming year I plan to do a few […]