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Hi to all members of the Visfovoltage community !

I'm on a big project right now, and I want to share it with you. It's not over yet, but I'm working Hard to get it done.

I bought a Used 48V Luyuan Bike that look very similar to the XB-600. The Bikes worked for about half a kilometer before it dies completely. I knew the bike was broken, and I wanted to make a better bike by buying parts over the web.

I just got a Stealth 1000 on ebay (new in box but a 2007 and batteries lasted less than 5 short trips so I assume they were more than a year old). Do any of you buy batteries online, where, and what's a good price? MonsterScooterparts has them for $120 plus $26 shipping. Does anyone know if Batteries Plus carries them and if they're any good. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Pat

I put the Phoenix HV-110 ESC in the same aluminium project box that houses my low-voltage electronics. I mounted a temperature controlled CPU fan on it and ran the fan off the 12V line on the low-voltage converter.

The fan was in a "blow" configuration but I think I will change it to a "suck" config as I think that is more efficient for this type of fan.

My replacement ESC from Castle Creations (the Phoenix HV-110A) finally arrived today, along with a Castle Creations USB programmer for it. The Phoenix HV-110A is considerably beefier than the ELF controller that I burned out. I reprogrammed the Phoenix using the very nice USB programmer (notably: BRAKING off) and installed it onto my Piaggio.

If you have the right QuickTime codec installed, you can watch a very boring video of my biking revving up to speed.

One of the ideas I've been pondering is: Open Green .. It would be a place to facilitate open source green vehicle related projects. I've been scribbling ideas in a notebook for a couple months and while I'm not convinced about this it seems to be a good idea with some merit.

Goal: increase the availability of 'green' technology .. engage the people themselves in solving the issues of sustainable technology, because it seems if we leave it to the big companies they'll twist it to not be green nor sustainable ..

CBR 600 F3 RUNS, DRIVES AND REGISTERED!

This is definitely not my karmic week. After burning out my ESC Friday, I was playing around with my e200 today and dropped my bike chain on my Doc Wattson. It fell on the LCD in a bad way and it cracked the LCD. Sigh...

Fortunately my credit card company has purchase protection, so I filed a claim with them. But it still means I gotta go order a new one.

And next time it comes, I'm putting a lexan cover over the LCD.

Phooeey!

Should we all get together and bring a class action against the "P" brothers for failure to adhere to their stated agreements and provide for a reliable, dependable, cheap, useable motorscooter (Z20a in particular) ?

I bought two bikes, not running, off craig's list. The one had the throttle and brakes assembly was gone. I lucked out of this bought both, replaced and it worked. the second bike had a fried controller. This unit runs on 24 volt nicads, placed under the seat. I purchased a crystalyte controller and can not figure out how to hook up, the bike has 5 wires coming out of the motor (rear), the controller has only one three wire connector, Oh what to do ??

Today I visited my local flea market and picked up a real find. A used Razor e300 (or maybe e200, not sure) electric scooter with charger for the unbelievable price of $25.