Upgraded Currie Scooter. Brushless and Lipo.

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remotecontact
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Upgraded Currie Scooter. Brushless and Lipo.

Hey guys, first post here.

On an innocent trip to my local pep boys I had the urge to offer the guy at the desk 75 bucks for the floor model of a pretty nice looking 900 watt Izip scooter with dead batteries and no charger. He said 100. I said deal.

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Stock.

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ohhhhhhh shinyyyyyyyyyy

The first thing I had to do was to remove all of those stickers as quickly as possible. Then I looked into my pile-o-motors. An HXT 80-100B seemed like the best way to go. I am honestly pleasantly surprised on the quality and construction of the new style 80-100's the older ones were pretty bad (have 2).

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A new big'ol bearing so the can isnt floating anymore.

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Yeah they could use some more copper fill maybe but at least the windings arnt loose anymore.

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Motor mount bandsawed from 1/2" 6061. Note the transplanted "900 watt" Currie sticker.

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On the esc and pwm generator side I used a 110HV and chinese voltage regs and servo tester that all fits snugly into a little black radio shack project enclosure. Also in the box are two 4700uF Caps which increase the capacitance by 9400uF. Overkill? Moving on...

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The electronics box and 37v at 15ah of lipo is just about the same size as the original 24v 10ah SLA pack.

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Being the same size, it all fits into the nifty SLA bag. Those 75amp powerpoles coming out of the bag are actually my switch because I blew up the stock switch somehow.

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Ready for a test!

*goes outside*

Test Fail!!

Sprocket loosened up on shaft. Blue locktite is clearly not enough. The next plan is a 1/8" hardened pin and a stronger flavor of locktite.

Alsoo is there anyone else using a CC 110HV and an 80-100 out there? I'm curious of what esc settings you run? High timing? Frequency? I am having some motor hiccups now and again and it just plain isnt as smooth as brushed.

- Adam

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Re: Upgraded Currie Scooter. Brushless and Lipo.

So, why exactly did you replace the factory motor? Was it damaged or something?

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Re: Upgraded Currie Scooter. Brushless and Lipo.

sweet looking motor. what kind of speed are you looking to get out of it? Also, does that model come with a rear disc brake?

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