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[Electric Cowboy]

@Dennis, I guess its like @DanielCoffey said above... the post seems less attentive in the UK than here or EU.

US & NZ updates :

More pans being made waiting for some more of our special oilrig wire (meant to be soaked in oil, frozen, and set on fire in salt water) and some extra thick wall water resistant, self sealing heat shrink and some bolts before the next shipment. Everything shoul be arriving between monday and wednesday of next week.

[dennis-NL]

News from the UK:
Alec send email too his customers from order june, the chargers arrive on monday/tuesday!
He will check the leads if ordered to combine them with chargers.
He also maybe wants to CNC a bracket for sockets.
 

[Drij]

Hi Guys, do you have a rough idea of when you wil start building the controllers for the next EU batch of orders?   

[Electric Cowboy]

Hey @Drij,

We will announce here as we move through the orders.

US update :
Almost all materials are in.
Currently on the shipping table just waiting on one or two bits are :
Chuck Burgess, Brad Kline, Joe Tessatore, Edwin Hill, and David Ewart.

NZ update :
Tim Burgess' unit will be shipping tomorrow or the day after.

EU update :
Alec has some units in hand, possibly all of them, reaching out to him at this point will give you the best info. I assume he will be testing and playing with units for a bit as these are the first units he has recieved.

Also, don't forget to order your mennekes adapters from him if you want the special connectors to plug into the walls etc. He has access to hook you up with those.

General update :
Potting more control boards this evening, keeping the fire stoked to keep a hot shop temp to aid in the chemical reaction for the curing process. Please keep your fingers crossed they are all still working when complete.

-Brandon

[ashnazg]

keeping the fire stoked to keep a hot shop temp to aid in the chemical reaction for the curing process

Sounds like the opposite of the one time I tried to home brew a batch of beer, at my apartment way back in the late '90s.  I needed to keep the batch at something like 58F for a week or two, so I had the HVAC temp as far down as it would go.  All my visitors those two weeks always asked "why is your outside doorknob the only one covered in condensation?" 

[Electric Cowboy]

LMAO @ door knob condensation

NZ update :

Tim's 10kw charger and Sam Baker's v2.5 control board upgrade are being hand courried by Sean to NZ for them. Big Thanks to him for that! Sam's pan upgrade will stay here for him to pick up when he is here next month. If he brings his chargers we will mod them and install in the pan for him.

Other updates :

Everyone here has the flu, and we have taken turns in the hospital monitoring a situation related to the sickness. Thankfully everything seems to be turning out OK and we will all be back to 100% in a few days, returning to the office one at a time as we are able.

The last thing we want is to transmit any sickness from here to other places, so the production area has been quarantined. We will sanitize the floor and tables with fire (or lysol). daily as we return.

Best wishes and holidays if you have any. I will continue to post videos from footage we have yet to be able to use from the recovery beanbag (best thing for my back to sleep in).

[dennis-NL]

EU: first unit s from Alec in the UK are delivered, including mine 6,6kW at home in the Netherlands.

Every1 from Diginow and the English Electric Motor company: thx for trying and doing your best!!

 

[togo]

> Everyone here has the flu, and we have taken turns in the hospital monitoring a situation related to the sickness. Thankfully everything seems to be turning out OK and we will all be back to 100% in a few days, returning to the office one at a time as we are able.

> The last thing we want is to transmit any sickness from here to other places, so the production area has been quarantined. We will sanitize the floor and tables with fire (or lysol). daily as we return.

> Best wishes and holidays if you have any. I will continue to post videos from footage we have yet to be able to use from the recovery beanbag (best thing for my back to sleep in).

Oh, ouch, get well soon!

[MVetter]

Oh, ouch, get well soon!

Everyone is sick except me. I have become a nurse. Dad was admitted to the hospital (he's being discharged tomorrow), my brother got the flu, Electric Terry caught it from him, Brandon caught a nasty head cold when he went to LA, and the other person who was going to come down and help me care for dad got sick so I told him to stay home.

Tomorrow I might be the lucky recipient of a root canal so I've got more excitement to look forward to!

[neographikal]

Hi guys, new user and Zero owner here. I have been reading up on the SC 2.5 and I like the option, although my dealer told me warranty would be voided when these are installed (Netherlands). This does worry me as the bike is new. It would be an ideal solution since it leaves the option of installing the Power tank on the table.

Also, I really really would like a decent Youtube video of the install by Diginow themselves with the final version of the SC2.5 + pan so I can see how involved the installation actually is, where the Mennekes charge plug should be located and how the apps to manage the chargers look like. The information is out there, but it's in bits and pieces, not really user friendly although I'm an IT guy and quite technical.

Keep up the good work!

[MVetter]

Hey man. Congrats on the new Zero! First I want to assure you that your warranty will not be negatively impacted in any way by installation and use of our units. Zero has publicly stated this, and the warranty on their site makes this clear as well. If you read it they say warranty will be voided if it is discovered the bike is damaged by the aftermarket devices. So yeah, if our chargers are found to be causing damage to the bike I would not expect Zero to be liable for that; it's only fair. Thankfully our units don't damage the bikes. One other thing I know is that Zero headquarter here in the US has asked Zero Netherlands to stop telling people our products void the warranty. Please feel free to email Zero US customer service for any clarification on this.

Next up, quite frankly I think any effort we make for an installation is going to be very shortly outclassed by a video from Sam at New Zeroland. If you haven't already, check out his video on removing the stock Zero charger. He put 3d rendering of the cables into his video; he's much better at that sort of thing than us.

I know that if you're ready for a unit our UK distributor has some available to ship right now. Please send a message to Alec Sharp, alec@englishelectricmotorco.com

[dennis-NL]

Hi guys, new user and Zero owner here. I have been reading up on the SC 2.5 and I like the option, although my dealer told me warranty would be voided when these are installed (Netherlands). This does worry me as the bike is new. It would be an ideal solution since it leaves the option of installing the Power tank on the table.

Also, I really really would like a decent Youtube video of the install by Diginow themselves with the final version of the SC2.5 + pan so I can see how involved the installation actually is, where the Mennekes charge plug should be located and how the apps to manage the chargers look like. The information is out there, but it's in bits and pieces, not really user friendly although I'm an IT guy and quite technical.

Keep up the good work!

Hi, I'm also from the Netherlands and just received v2.5.
Follow progress on:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/zmcowners/permalink/1954290271306838/

[neographikal]

Thanks! Still I'd suggest some decent documentation on the site, provide links and screenshots for the apps, etc. Now it only appeals to the most nerdy of customers while it seems to be a great product. Although I'd have to contact Zero, we don't have the same laws as in the US where the manufacturer has to prove the modification was the source of a fault. In Europe it's the other way around, you changed the product? Too bad for you...

[MVetter]

Then please contact Aaron Cheatham, head of customer service if you don't want to take our word for it.

Documentation is one of the very important things that this IndieGoGo campaign will allow us to do because we can finalize the production process which means everything is more or less "locked in" and standardized. We have had a habit of making little changes and improvements which would, traditionally, make any documentation we write almost immediately useless. Rather than spend time doing that we opted to try and finalize the design first, hence the IndieGoGo. Documentation *will* be a part of it.

This really isn't nearly as daunting or difficult to figure out as it might first appear. I remember the first time I watched Brandon swap plugs around and reconfigure things and it looked like terrifying wizardry. Now, because I can, I'm carrying around adapters in my backpack for 4 different charging configurations and my phone is full of push-button macros for any charger I might encounter; I don't even think twice about it. The average user absolutely doesn't have to do anything like this, though. The whole system is designed to just work after it's installed. Plug it in and it works. If you don't want to have to think about it or mess with it you shouldn't have to. Plug it in, start charging, grab a lovely coffee and pastry, and come back to a charged up machine. Simple.

[neographikal]

Thanks for the clarification, I mailed Zero US to confirm the warranty will be valid in The Netherlands as well after installing the SC2.5.