On 21 Aug 2019 at 15:31, Russ Sciville via EV wrote: > Such an incredibly clever guy to design those pancake style motors in his > parents backyard.
Absolutely! To my admittedly limited knowledge, the Lynch motor has gone through multiple iterations and is more or less commercially available. If memory serves, Lynch and some friends formed Lemco to manufacture the motors in (I think) the 1990s. I got the impression that they were nearly hand-built in the early years. About 20 years ago Briggs and Stratton (of all companies!) licensed the Lynch design, and had motors bearing the Etek name made for them in China. These motors were much discussed here on the EVDL and for a time were popular in homebrew scooters and Electrathon racers. I think the Etek motor has been out of production for many years. However, knockoffs and/or imitators seem to be currently available at around the same price. Lemco itself is still around (lynchmotors.co.uk), and I see photos of what look like pancake motors on their website, but Lynch appear to be mostly into custom designed motors. Someone please correct me if that impression is wrong. My understanding is that Cedric Lynch is no longer involved in any way with Lynch motors. In the early 2000s Cedric Lynch was connected to (or perhaps co-founded?) Agni Motors. I don't know the details of the early days but they're currently locatd in India. I looked at the agnimotors.in website and saw only very conventional looking motors, nothing that even vaguely resembled the Lynch pancake motor, so I don't know what's going on there. Maybe someone else does. Despite the existence of that website, Agni reportedly merged with another company to become Saietta Group. I couldn't see anything on Saietta's website because I won't enable javascript for just anybody, but I found a photo of a Saietta 155R motor on another website, and it looks a lot more like something Mr Lynch would have designed. Saietta also manufacture e-motorcycles. I found a photo of one at https://www.leftfieldbikes.com/shop/recreation/saietta/ but it's very different from Lynch's streamliner. From its appearance, I'd guess that it's much less efficient. According to a note at the link Paul posted, Lynch has tried to get Saietta to commercialize his hyper-efficient EV, but they've shown zero interest. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
