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... Word is that Livewire is really suffering too.
flat roof, even then tilt the thing about 15 degrees, it's a middle spot to catch the sun all times of the year but more importantly let the water drain off, otherwise it pools and when it dries, the pollen etc cakes and hardens onto the panels really dropping their efficiency.
if you want battery backup, go that route, if you are in north florida i can get you a good deal on new lith batteries, i say north fl because we could possibly meet up or you could go get .vs. shipping which kills the 'deal'. otherwise something like the enphase inverter makes it a quick simple install and forget about it item.
ive been doing solar for well shit. 40 years now so have learned a thing or two over that time.
Aaron
Anyone have the wiring diagram for this motor and what controller I can pair with it? Also, the connecting plug for the Hall sensor I believe is what is pictured.
matt, forks can survive some amazing shit. when i wrecked the ego last year, the forks were unscathed amazingly enough. for what i did that bike should have been destroyed but i dodged a bullet. in your case, it sounds like The bike had a sudden stop. the forks may have been compressing to take this load into compression energy to let it back out as the spring let loose. The battery being bolted solid now, is unsprung, so that sudden stop had nowhere to go, so the mass inertia of it just snapped stuff where it was holding. were they stock forks or upgraded.
aaron
Hello everyoneOut of curiosity, how & where did the frame crack?
I've got a line on a 2017 Zero SR that is heavily damaged. Most specifically, the frame is cracked, ……..
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i want any and all EV companies to succeed. I think they are good, and it doesn't matter why really, people have their own reasons for liking or disliking things, and that's cool. With that though the better they do overall, the better the acceptance and support for ALL things EV will be. more car chargers means more bike chargers etc etc. better support overall for everything we want / need.
the price of solar has come down stupidly a lot, and if the dirty ass contractors would stop fucking RAPING people on the price to put the goddam shit in, more people could afford it even without the rebate they used to have. Having panels on your house, would offset many bills for you. Whjether you want to save the planet, cut your electric bills down, or have power in a blackout, panels on a house is an extremely good use case normally.
You can get good quality panels in bulk for 32 cents a watt now. top line in the 40's / watt. yet they want to charge you 5 dollars a watt to install the stuff. this is because they knew they could sell them on the 30 percent thing to people who didn't think it fully through and that meant obscene profits for them as well. the gravy train is over, if they want to stay in business they'll have to quit eating filets and eat hamburger and sirloins once in a while. I actually had one contractor tell me when i initially priced my setup, well everyone has to eat you know. Right before i kicked him the hell out of the house i told him, i get that and im good with that but that doesn't mean that you have to order a prime rib every time someone else is paying for it. He called a week later, trying to pretend nothing happened, and knocked the price down about 30 percent still trying to sell. didn't happen.
Solar is doable, just have to shop around and try to find a contractor that's not a crook, and another trick. have them put a small tiny system in, just enogugh to get it on the grid and signed off and you can diy / third party the rest later for a much lower price. It's not the answer to every problem but would take a nice chunk out of many peoples transportation bills on solar .vs. gas.
A 5 kw battery with an 8 year warranty on it cost about 800 dollars now (its 48 volt, if you want to string12's together its a bit cheaper), this with say 6 -400 watt panels would give you about 10kw on a good day. that's about 100 miles on your bike. on a bad day, maybe 2 kw. Doing the math, a panel can, at least in florida pay for itself in about 4 maybe 5 years. they are warrantied for 25 years. plug that into your zero, livewire, energica, lightfighter and you got a solid system
aaron
if you want to reduce weight, run 800 volts. smaller wires, less copper.
there's always a trade off somewhere.
aaron
Yeah that's the propaganda they spread. Zero was considering using them as a manufacturer for their motor they had designed in-house. However the engineers were suspicious that Motenergy would attempt to rip them off. So when they sent the designs over to Motenergy to see how well they'd follow them they sent, shall we say, sabotaged plans that were much weaker. They decided not to go with Motenergy and, lo and behold, the ME1507 came out. Everyone I've talked to who has used that motor tells a story similar to yours and can't figure out why their ME1507 is universally described as "a sad panda".
Never mind, found it :
"1.21gigawatts"
Hello, hope you are still out there.
Did you find the motor you were looking for? Did you make the changes you mentioned? I have a 2010 DS that I want to install a new motor/battery/controller into and was looking for some advice.
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