Just to be truly weird I removed all the gasoline motors from my trike. I am going to junk them all since they are are junk at the moment. Not their fault I'm sure.
I reinstalled the electric motor and drive wheel onto the trike. So now i junked all my batteries when I went back to gasoline and now I have to decide what to do for power. I would love to pay four hundred bucks for a good lithium battery pack but I just can't bring myself to write that check.
So my first big experiment is based on step two of an ongoing experiment. I have discovered that I can run a 24v battery directly to the motor through a 20amp household light switch without too much risk of melt down. I do have a dead safety built in just in case.
So experiment two is... Since I have a tricycle and can carry more weight, I plan to pick up a couple of used car batteries to see what flooded cells will do. Most likely they will not be very good at all, but I do want to see. After last years experiment with a ton of nimh batteries this will be a simple and inexpensive test before I go back to something else.
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I just stuck the emotor into the mount I had used for the gasoline motor so nothing was wasted/ except money