Do you mean by carrying a charger and plugging into outlets you find along your route?Is anyone else charging their eBike while Riding
On flat or down grades I emediatly turn my bike off and peddle enough so I don't freewheel. On some down hills I have to use braking so I don't travel faster than I can keep up with peddling (all electric moters being turned without electricity become generators. When my ebike is on it automaticaly uses PAS, useing electricity Originally I didn't think it would make much of a charge, but in trials, it did. Now when i'm riding I have to be careful and make sure I turn my bike bike on at or before 52.4 volts so I don't overcharge my 48 volt battery. After watching a video on moding an ebike with a frankinrunner/grin controller (I think those were the names?) I learned I could make a charge and send it through the controller to the battery. I wish I had known about this earlier, I pretty much keep my battery fully charged, I feel like I had this revelation.Is anyone else charging their eBike while Riding
On flat or down grades I emediatly turn my bike off and peddle enough so I don't freewheel. On some down hills I have to use braking so I don't travel faster than I can keep up with peddling (all electric moters being turned without electricity become generators. When my ebike is on it automaticaly uses PAS, useing electricity Originally I didn't think it would make much of a charge, but in trials, it did. Now when i'm riding I have to be careful and make sure I turn my bike bike on at or before 52.4 volts so I don't overcharge my 48 volt battery. After watching a video on moding an ebike with a frankinrunner/grin controller (I think those were the names?) I learned I could make a charge and send it through the controller to the battery. I wish I had known about this earlier, I pretty much keep my battery fully charged, I feel like I had this revelation. qIs anyone else charging their eBike while Riding
I don't see how a direct drive motor can create electricity but my motor cannot? Isn't just coils of wire passing through magnetic fields. I appreciate the feedback, thank you.Abdaddy, I believe you wrote you have Radrunner2 (a very cool bike, congrats) but it's advertised to have a geared motor. Geared motors (with a few exceptions) don't do regen. The earlier Radcity models with direct drive motors had regen, and it's nice for braking, but I heard it doesn't let you coast very well unless you turn it off. So unless I'm wrong, you can just ride on w/o worry about recharging your battery over voltage.
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Sure, Grin sells a geared motor with no clutch, and you need their special controller so you can ride it and coast down hills. It actually has to power the motor so it doesn't slow you down going down the hill. Overly complicated in my opinion. It's worth it for a automobile where getting 5% back makes a difference. For a bike with a 50 mile range, a few miles of extra range isn't worth it unless it's a working cargo bike.
I WAS WRONG. I haven't delt with 3 phase bldc motors before. and so I learn.I don't see how a direct drive motor can create electricity but my motor cannot? Isn't just coils of wire passing through magnetic fields. I appreciate the feedback, thank you.
Ouch. That hert. Yes I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.I thought that re-gen would be cool for three days once, years ago. The overhead is not worth it. It is like an electric drill with re-gen that is 30% heavier.
Copenhagen wheels had it. The only way you could use those bikes was by logging into a central geo tracking server which would hijack your phone and take over its Bluetooth. You could never ride without being spied on. Creepy. They were wimpy and the battery weight rotated with the wheel. I have since learned that anything 'smart' is dumb. So what if someone nabbed your phone at lunch?
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The energy you gain back would be more than made up for by the effort you would expend. Thermodynamics: Its The Law.It would be cool to have real-time variable control on the regen, then you could recharge while pedaling!