Minor progress, riding season is done though.
Headlight:
- Bike store quoted me $25 for a headlight.
- Auto store said I choice between the $34 one and the $17 one.
- Later found the cheap one for $10.
License plate light:
- Another $6. Pain in the ass to get to, you have to take off the
license plate holder and the plate light plate from behind the rear
fender to get at the screws for the lens. Works now.
Tail light:
- Soldered the two sets of wires together, works good now.
- Tried to figure out the mystery mounting bracket and sensor and
spring for the rear brake switch. Couldn't see where the bracket goes,
now that I've re-checked pics I'll look again.
Batteries:
- Restored a bunch of batteries, but left them as-is in the tool packs
rather than strip them for cells since they just needed balancing
(charging) a weak pair.
- Packs are 20V each and good for 50 amps draw. They have 60-100 watt
hours, so, 4-6 minutes at max draw, plenty to fart around the parkade.
Test Ride:
- Figured 2 drill packs in series for 40V ("36v" of lead acids are
actually up around 40-45v when charged, and it was a 36v forklift).
- Didn't have much for wires, so, I figured 50 amps @ 40v = 2000 watts
= 2.7 horsepower is enough to do a low speed test ride. And only
hooked up 2 batteries total.
- First 20 feet at walking speed... controller is growly at super-slow
speeds but it was fine.
- Accelerated to a brisk walk... let the smoke out.
- Apparently pushing 700 lbs off of two little drill batteries on a
1960s controller that has no energy storage and slams power full on
and full off many times a second for speed "control"... is not
appreciated by little batteries.
- First snow of the year later that night.
So, likely, thus ends my progress towards the "Get it running and out
for a ride sometime this season" goal.
Kinda depressing, was looking forward to at least some validation
before the winter. Oh well. Like all my projects, never quite leaves
the bench.
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