tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231841547435511043.post5535674770860382193..comments2023-06-13T01:05:30.996-07:00Comments on The Electricle™ : Bicycle Electric-Motor-Assist Project: A Motherlode of Electronic ComponentsM.E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15375034485988839284noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231841547435511043.post-80600678605840204702007-12-27T20:07:00.000-07:002007-12-27T20:07:00.000-07:00> This is an excellent blog for electric bicycles....> This is an excellent blog for electric bicycles. There are not too many<BR/>> around like this. Thanks for making this such an interesting subject. Oh, by<BR/>> the way, Wired Magazine has a great article on hybrid cars this month. (Jan<BR/>> 2008 issue).<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks! I'm trying to put as much info as I can in there, but so much of the detail is irrelevant, since the parts other people find and put in will be different than mine, if they choose to build something like this. I'd love to have it be good enough to become a commercial product, but I really don't think it will. It's mostly a way for me to improve my only transportation, and to recycle at the same time. I think John of TeamDroid's words were that I am a "born scavenger". :-)<BR/><BR/>I might look at the Wired article, but I probably won't have the time--I'm too busy trying to figure out how to build my own BLDC motor and ESC for it. There is an awful lot to learn and consider, but since I cannot ever afford to buy either one outright, I might as well try building one. I've already previously turned an old AC B&D drill into a DC motor by removing the shunt coils and replacing them with magnets out of a same-size-rotor PMDC motor that had no torque *or* speed at all. It worked way better than I thought it would, but still not enough torque for my purposes. I'd have to rewind the motor's rotor coils to have parallel windings and many more of them, to get anything close to the torque I need to run a bike off of, even with the reduction gearing that's built into the drill (the whole reason I tried the experiment). <BR/><BR/>If I'm going to all that trouble, I might as well be making a bigger and better motor in the first place. :-)<BR/><BR/>-- <BR/>Michael Elliott<BR/>Opporknockity Tunes Studios, Uninked<BR/>Phoenix, AZ<BR/>Bicyle Conversion Blog: http://opporknockitytunes.blogspot.comM.E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15375034485988839284noreply@blogger.com