Would a "Harmonic drive" be an option to adapt electric motors to existing motor bike drive shafts?
See at:
http://www.harmonicdrive.net/reference/operatingprinciples/
This might open up a whole lot of bikes for conversions.
Mik
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Isn't this the basis behind Wavecrest's technology? The Tidalforce bike is no longer being made, but a French company bought up the rights as I recall. I haven't heard anything about it since.
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I believe it is totally unrelated technology, but I might be wrong.
I found it difficult to find details about the Wavecrest stuff, but what I found sounded like a multi-phase motor design, nothing to do with a transmission.
Looks like the missing link to me....
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I think the Harmonic Drive would be a too expensive solution to be used in electric scooters/motorcycles since it's made for high precision applications that require zero backslash. It would be hard to motivate the cost in an application where precision is not needed.
What reduction ratio is needed?
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Viktor
I calculated that I needed like a 10:1 final ratio to do like 23mph with a 3000rpm motor with a 26" rim. Sort of near the edge for a single gear.
But, when everything switches to A/C induction or something, then we're going to need ratios on the order of like 30:1 or more.
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Yes, I missed the detail that these transmissions start at around 50:1 - not suitable!
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