We’ve all been there… You’re in your workshop staring at a pile of unused parts thinking “I’m bored, let’s make something fun” and “these old parts can’t be worthless”
Let this thread be a discussion about what awesome PEV projects you’re thinking of tackling and how you may approach said project.
Naturally, I wanted to treat it like a big esk8 but ran into some limitations.
Most go karts have what is called a rear “live axle”. This implies that the whole rear axle spins, not just the pulleys and wheels. This is usually accomplished with one large motor driving a sprocket on the axle as seen below.
Excellent idea for a thread!
I would be all over this as a project but, alas, living in Manhattan means I would probably have SWAT swarming me a minute after getting outside.
One of my items I am still trying to come up with on how to achieve is turning a puck into a functional twist throttle that has the ability to twist back to go and twist forward to Regen brake.
There are a bunch of puck mods but none like a bike twist throttle, that would be awesome.
I run in to this issue a bit too. I love that the maytech split trigger remote separates brake and accel into 2 triggers and was hoping I could map the 2 inputs to 2 different foot pedals for a real e brake and reverse.
You could get a standard 5V ebike throttle and arduino the 5V output into PPM. Might need to mod the spring system to get it to center instead of going all the way forward.
So far all the twist throttle I’ve seen only twist one way without being able to use a brake feature unless you wire in the lever (which is personally rather not do) I’m sure that can be modded pretty easy but I haven’t seen one in person yet just online so it make it hard for me to guess without my hands on it.
Yeah, that’s what I meant by modding the spring. If you can mechanically get it to stay in the center, you can programmatically set that point as the throttle/brake center. I’ve never seen the internals of those throttles tho, so idk how easy it is to do.
Yes! Drift trike for me. I am going rear wheel drive, (some use a hub motor on the front).
Live rear axel with one large drive motor. I’ll probably try fabing the frame. Depending on the width of those carts you’re doing, I don’t see why our drive lines couldn’t be identical.
But, it won’t be for a couple months though.
I’m looking at a motor that states 48 volt 1500 watt (weaved into the spikes style) what kind of battery should I get to power this. I don’t want it under powered but I don’t want to blow it up either.
Any suggestions welcomed. 13s equals 48 v but I don’t get the wattage rating the go by.
That equates to a rated max 30A of current draw, any 13s pack that can output that much would work at the motor’s ratings. I’d probably go 2p at least unless you use high power cells.
You also don’t need to stick exactly to 48V, the motor doesn’t care that much
Yep, watts = volts * amps
When you select cells, make sure that their continuous discharge rating times the number of cells in parallel is greater than 30A
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