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1 Hour Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Who gives a crap about cycle life if you have to run slow? (OK yeah. I've been drinking. OK. a lot. lol. But seriously...)

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8 Hours Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

NICE! Today I went for a little ride: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2XC8ZqWXbDA" frameborder="0"...

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10 Hours Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

...last night I saw a Tesla S in the wild. On a curvy road. Honkin on BoBo. It was awesome.

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11 Hours Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

yeah... To be fair, my lipo failed because I kind of ****ed them up. And in full disclosure, I'd go with the hardcase again, but the CALB were...

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19 Hours Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Right, as I said, they're much different. Ironically, (and to the point) though, as I went to top up my lipo pack I found another pack has given up...

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1 Day Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

...fixed all the stupid **** I did and actually went for a little ride on the Turtle Pond Parkway! Imagine that. (Well you'll have to, cause there...

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1 Day Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Nope, more like a net gain of less than 50lbs. I'm pulling the old pack off (25lbs) and adding maybe 60lbs. But the voltage sag is pretty big... ...

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teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

wait WUUUT? lol. I'm completely confused. OK. Yeah. Pass the cheese. :o

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teddillard replied to a thread e-Cruiser version 1.0 build thread in Tell us about YOUR Project

BEAST!* *highest form of praise among 14 year old boys, and 50 year old men who act like them

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1 Day Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

I'm an idiot. The Vicor I have is rated for 50W. The headlight that I put in this winter is a 55W bulb. I've only run the light a few seconds for...

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teddillard started a thread Photos... um. Didn't happen? (PSA) in General

I've gone back and looked at a bunch of my older threads and the photos aren't showing up. Also, many of the photos I've been trying to post lately...

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1 Day Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

I have a small RC lipo pack with the hardcase 4s Turnigy. I also just finished a 40ah CALB pack and took a ride last night. Let's just say it's a...

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2 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

Is that just powering down the HV? If so, yeah, I did that. No dice. (Wait, not you Dice. :D)

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2 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

I got the pack all squared away... mounted, only a few zip-ties holding parts together temporarily, and went for a little neighborhood ride, where...

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3 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread 1998 suzuki marauder vz800 conversion in Tell us about YOUR Project

Just saw this AWEsome site showing hand-drawn wiring diagrams: ...

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teddillard replied to a thread Brammo site dropped "vaporbikes"? in Brammo

I'm not entirely convinced they (or at least all of them) ever made it into the oven in the first place... :D

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frodus replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

..... got a USB CAN adapter to sniff the canbus :)

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frodus replied to a thread Michael Czysz fighting cancer... in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

He'll beat this.... He didn't let the Ton on the IOM hold him back! This is no different!

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teddillard started a thread Michael Czysz fighting cancer... in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

crap. Wishing Michael the best. After seeing the Charge movie, I have a lot of respect for what he's accomplished, and his determination and...

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4 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread 1998 suzuki marauder vz800 conversion in Tell us about YOUR Project

I think technically you're not "grounding" the system. You're just wiring the negatives together without using the frame...

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teddillard started a thread Brammo site dropped "vaporbikes"? in Brammo

I noticed Brammo is now just listing the bikes you can actually buy: the Enertia Plus, Enertia LE (Police version) and the Empulse. The "Buy" page...

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teddillard replied to a thread 1998 suzuki marauder vz800 conversion in Tell us about YOUR Project

MDFAD*. The pinnacle of prototype mock-up. My first motor was cardboard:

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5 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread Zero wins another Euro M/C award in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

"scooters" ≠ "bikes". :p

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5 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread liveforphysics? Zat You? (Trek Turbo video) in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

HAHAHahaahahHAHa! Sweet! So an idiot smartass journalist is using a clip of an idiot journalist making an ass of himself to try to make electric...

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frodus replied to a thread liveforphysics? Zat You? (Trek Turbo video) in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

Here's Lukes Deathbike while at PIR for the TTXGP.... the thing was a rocket!

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teddillard started a thread liveforphysics? Zat You? (Trek Turbo video) in The Latest Electric Motorcycle News

If you can wade through this jackass' commentary, I think you can see Luke!

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6 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

So along the lines of the best laid plans... on the CALB orientation. They say in the manual that I linked elsewhere that the cells should be...

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6 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

Yeah, I'm afraid that on the roads in New England, zero ground clearance is pretty much a problem that exists. :D But I think it's better now... ...

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6 Days Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

Not without redoing the whole thing - it's about a half-inch short. :rolleyes:

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1 Week Ago

teddillard replied to a thread The Best Laid Plans.... or, "Pass the Cheese!" in Tell us about YOUR Project

So, here's my temporary solution. Kind of a mix of Noah's idea and one of mine: I'm going to run it at 70-odd volts for now, then...

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