Nice job VectrixFan

Got a link?

I just wanted to congratulate VectrixFan for his website, its ver complete and proffesional.I think it hasnt had enough support from all of us!!!
A shame that such a good effort gets wasted.

I totally agree. That's an excellet site and every Vectrix owner should be there. Thanks for the effort... Very nice job!

I just wanted to congratulate VectrixFan for his website, its ver complete and proffesional.I think it hasnt had enough support from all of us!!!
A shame that such a good effort gets wasted.

I totally agree. That's an excellet site and every Vectrix owner should be there. Thanks for the effort... Very nice job!

I'm obviously already there, and did not even know it!

And now my name is Vincent Tervooren, that's also new to me! And thanks goes to MikeB, very strange indeed!

http://www.vectrixfan.com/documentation/4-wheels-and-tires/13-vectrix-real-world-regen-braking-testing.html

I've seen that somewhere before.....

http://visforvoltage.org/forum/3369-vectrix-real-world-regen-braking-testing#comment-18815

This sort of plagiarizing without quoting the source and without following it up leaves out important "updates" like this one:

I have learned lots in the last year which makes it clearer to me that there are some serious problems with the Regen Effect Measurements I attempted in the above posts.

As already mentioned earlier on, during the EC part of charging there is some actual current flow into the battery. The voltage increases by 1-2V compared to the end of CC part. How much difference that makes, I do not know.

Something else I did not know about back then is the high self discharge rate of NiMH cell, particularly in the first 24hrs. So I basically do not know what those test results mean, because the self discharge rate might have been equal to, or different to the charge amount missed during the abandoned EC charge part.

And I never did the planned commuting without regen, because 2 weeks after the first regen tests the motor controller fried and Vectrix canceled my warranty. It took me 3 weeks to repair the motor controller myself, but 9 days later it was frying again. After another 3 days I managed to fix it properly; that was followed by another blown fuse 12 days later, which I sourced and replaced within 2 days.

And then I finally had some time to read up more about batteries. And as a result I canceled the plans to deliberately run out of charge for testing purposes.

In short: I don't know how much the regen really adds to the range, but it is so little that it is not easily measured with accuracy.

I guess the commonly quoted 5% range increase under good conditions might be right, and that means 2km extra range for me, 2km I don't have to push!

I don't mind at all if people use the stuff I wrote, but they should mention where it came from, and / or post the updates as well!

Someone should redirect "Zuma" looking for advice about failing rear lights, before he ends up as roadkill on a dark Canadian road...

http://www.vectrixfan.com/forum-19.html#9

Or just pick a few cherries at random out of this thread: http://visforvoltage.org/forum/4442-brake-light-stopped-working