I'm building a weed eater motor - dc permanent magnet motor generator for my BD48 kit.
Today I spent time on cutting and sanding the plastic weedeater housing to allow me to screw on aluminum angle to make a motor mount. The mount is pretty straight and stable, I think it will work.
For the dc motor, I cut out a mount from 1/8" aluminum plate scrap that I had in my garage. It will be fitted to some aluminum angle as well.
All this was done with a hacksaw and file, and an electric drill. I don't have good metal working tools, mostly just hand tools.
I still have to bolt a lot of stuff together, align it and mount it to a piece of plywood. Then add a gas tank, electric switch, servo and controller. I still have to program the controller, I may just start out with adjusting the throttle and holding it in one position at first.
More pics here:
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=14198
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Very cool! When I tried putting a generator in the basket of my trike, it was just too heavy. Top speed was just under 15mph. That should work well.
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Sounds like an interesting project. I think you can probably get away from that large of gas generator, but not sure. I wonder if the RC people have super small/super quiet gas engines...hmm. You may want to check with this guy:
http://www.staton-inc.com/
They have several mechanical combiners and Dave Staton is a great guy to work with on custom jobs.
--Scotty
Took the first ride on the hybrid tonight. Still need to do some testing but it seems to work!