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10 Hours Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread RS50 to be at REFUEL event in All Other EVents

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1 Day Ago

ElMotoMaster replied to a thread Where are the tweets? in General

Working on it, but it may be a while. Twitter decided to revamp their system that wasnt broken, screwing all of us using external feeds.

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2 Days Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Plettenberg 150kW motor in Motors

I sent in an email asking for more information and price/release date.

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2 Days Ago

DRZ400 replied to a thread Native GPR-S for sale / 2010 / yellow in For Sale

Where did you source the EIG cells??

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6 Days Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Alright I'm come to a few more conclusions about the data with your guys suggestions. The motor is not into "saturation" and thus this is not...

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1 Week Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Ok so my misconception was with the idea that saturation affects the magnets when it mainly affects the steel (which our motor only has in the...

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1 Week Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Well crap. I have to take back a few of my statements...I originally was looking at the third practice run incorrectly (91.7mph lap). We did indeed...

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1 Week Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread TT Zero 2013 in TT Zero

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. It was such a great experience to compete, finish and podium at the IOM TT Zero. It has truly captured the...

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1 Week Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

I want to give a bit of a summary of our final days at the IOM. We made a couple of modifications to the machine before the final race on Wednesday,...

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1 Week Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Thanks for the congratulations. I want to first say that I am no expert on this and haven't studied saturation too much. The simple answer is...

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1 Week Ago

DRZ400 replied to a thread A New Bike on the Block... in Tell us about YOUR Project

That is outstanding! I can only imagine the attention you will get!!!! That box looks like it would make even Lipos safe!!

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1 Week Ago

DRZ400 replied to a thread Ultracap Boost Capacitor to reduce accelleration sag in Batteries

Well, the idea of the diode is that the Lipo pack would only be used when to Calb voltage sagged below the nominal Lipo voltage. So only during hard...

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1 Week Ago

DRZ400 replied to a thread Ultracap Boost Capacitor to reduce accelleration sag in Batteries

Cool, do you have a diode between the packs?

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2 Weeks Ago

DRZ400 replied to a thread Ultracap Boost Capacitor to reduce accelleration sag in Batteries

Thanks, somehow I missed that!

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2 Weeks Ago

DRZ400 started a thread Ultracap Boost Capacitor to reduce accelleration sag in Batteries

I see that Boost Caps are getting less expensive...seems they would be idea for reducing battery sag during 2-3 second accelleration bursts. Maxwell...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Posted in the TT Zero thread as well... Yep we were able to sort the problems out. A poor 12V connection seems to be what is to blame for most of...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread TT Zero 2013 in TT Zero

Yep we were able to sort the problems out. A poor 12V connection seems to be what is to blame for most of the errors. We had to lower the motor...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Also it looks like battery to road efficiency is just over 91% at full power. Not to shabby for a racebike. That fact right there is really going...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Brian, yea we have been watching out for over voltage issues. Tritium has told us that it is possible to run up to 500Vdc before the controller will...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Took the motor current down 10A and ran into even more issues. WTF man. Rob had to reset the machine over 40 times in one lap. Mr Barber is...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

Thanks guys! Today didn't go quite so well, but we're on the case.

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread TT Zero 2013 in TT Zero

Unfortunately we are having problems with controller errors. Planning some dyno work tomorrow.

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2 Weeks Ago

DRZ400 started a thread Calb cells on a 90 degree day in Batteries

As felt during riding the Calbs really like hot weather. Last week I logged data around my block at 53F outside, max amps was 238A, Min voltage was...

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

Had a bike I buit go 88mph around the Isle of Man TT mountain course. Well yesterday, today we'll be going faster :)

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2 Weeks Ago

Nuts & Volts replied to a thread Buckeye Current - Build Thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

Been a busy last two days. We managed to get some time at the Jurby airstrip on Wed and did 17 total laps (1.05mile track, 1:26 lap time). We were...

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