Team Vectrix??

Power Surges!!

I've been having a few problems related to this, but only at work, never at home.

Over the last year or so after having a top charge at work I would be occasionaly greeted with flashing batt and temp lights. It may or may not have given the bike it's full top up, limped home slowly a couple of times. Once it locked the charger/bike up and had to get the AA to take me home.

Thinking it was the pcb's attached to the batteries I spent time sealing them up, but still a problem.

It was only happening at work!!

Got a plugin surge protector and it has not happened again

As this has only happened about 6 times in a year I don't know if I have fixed it, but so far so good

Power Surges!!

I've been having a few problems related to this, but only at work, never at home.

Over the last year or so after having a top charge at work I would be occasionaly greeted with flashing batt and temp lights. It may or may not have given the bike it's full top up, limped home slowly a couple of times. Once it locked the charger/bike up and had to get the AA to take me home.

Thinking it was the pcb's attached to the batteries I spent time sealing them up, but still a problem.

It was only happening at work!!

Got a plugin surge protector and it has not happened again

As this has only happened about 6 times in a year I don't know if I have fixed it, but so far so good

I think this might be due to brief power outages, rather than spikes. I saw similar behaviours a few times when mucking about with timers. Turning the power back on just after turning it off, before the bike has powered down, or turning it off just seconds after plugging in (when the charger is still going through the startup routine) can make it hang. I always managed to get it going again by turning on and off or plugging in /out repeatedly.

I think this might be due to brief power outages, rather than spikes.

Agreed, I too have witnessed this.

any of those surge protectors will do.
They just have a varistor inside that would usually start to conduct at around 450v.
anything designed to run on 240vac will have parts rated to more than 450vdc.

as for mini power cuts.....not alot you can do about that, short of putting a UPS in there.

Matt

Here are a couple of videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVwEYMfOt0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLVCDvK_Mp4

They're quite noisy aren't they?

If you remember reading back while, I was asking how to tap in, adding batteries as an extra boost. I added a great trailer set-up for this Idea, and found that no one could answer how to do this. A COOL TRAILER IS THE ANSWER!!

Stu

Here is a video posted on YouTube a few weeks ago. The interviewer is Italian, and the riders are German, but they are speaking English!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbr8P81RHY

hello.
Just checked the facebook site of team Vectrix and need our help

Hello Vecrix experts,
May we need some technical help...
Does someone know the error code "MS hot"?
Thanks for your support

Any ideas?

Hi,
I checked their Facebooksite, it seems to be a problem with the fan of the motorcontroller.
They got actually help from Vectrix germany and a technican of the factory in Poland.

Greetings Mike

Hi,
I checked their Facebooksite, it seems to be a problem with the fan of the motorcontroller.
They got actually help from Vectrix germany and a technican of the factory in Poland.

Greetings Mike

Wow!
The efforts you have to go to to get some attention....good on ya, girls and guys! Go around the world until they take notice....

I hope they did not threaten to void your warranty...you did not change anything much compared to the stock design, did you? Thought so!

You must be those "Trailblazers" they were talking about!

Now they're in USA.
the zerotracer had an accident with a cyclist (I wish he is ok), only two teams remain, The Vectrix Team and the Trev Team.
About the TREV, have a look at this pictures:

They are using a vectrix engine!!
both surviving teams are using VECTRIX technology... :-)

:-O

Wow! A big marketingpush for Vectrix Corp. I´m wondering if Vectrix germany allready knows this fact?!

R you have eagleeyes ;-)

Greetings Mike

They are using a vectrix engine!!
both surviving teams are using VECTRIX technology... :-)

True, you can find it confirmed on their: Wiki page

Hi,

After looking the pictures , I can see 35 yellow cells with BMS. A 250 km range needs high energy density; it can be achieved with Lithium polymer. However the are no polymer box cells available. In my opinion, each yellow cell contains 6 polymer flat cells in parallel, 20x6Ah 3.7v each, plus 35 yellow box in series totalling 210 cells and 129.5V nominal, 15.54kwh.

Here is a video posted on YouTube a few weeks ago. The interviewer is Italian, and the riders are German, but they are speaking English!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEbr8P81RHY

In the interview she says "Lithium Iron" which is more likely since thats what e-poché sells.

In the interview she says "Lithium Iron" which is more likely since thats what e-poché sells

In the e-poché webpage I can only see TS cells. These cells are too heavy to give a suèrb range of 250-400 km in one single charge.

The tour has ended with success:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12578749
http://www.facebook.com/TeamVectrix

My brother has established contact wit vectrix Team(when they came to Barcelona). Very nice people, they explained him how they did that superb conversion (I still have to talk with him about that)