 Re: Walmart ebike
If my 24 hours have a projected range of about 12 miles that lith should be good for a few more miles. I just hate to get out somewhere and have a battery die miles from home. I'm pretty anal about testing the charge when I get home.
The one thing I do like about my hub motor is that it will not allow the batteries to drain below about 12.25 which doesn't damage them. I used to run my sla on the friction drive down to 11.75 or lower not knowing it was screwing them up.
I still have it in the back of my mind to try flooded cell since this bike won't kill them. The other issue is that the trailer kind of negates the weight factor of a flooded cell batter. I would love to have a reliable formula for converting the flooded cell rating to actual range. I guess in the end I will have to just buy two batteries and try them out. I know it makes no sense at all. I can get a 20 ah rig sla set up for about eighty bucks. I have no idea what eighty bucks worth of flooded cell batteries would be. The only thing the flooded cells have going for them is the availability... i can pick them up a couple of blocks from my house any day of the week.
Last edited by deacon : 04-08-2009 at 10:18 AM.
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