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What A Good Idea : Long-Term Lithium Pack Storage Without Incurring...
Remember the good old days of Lead Acid when you could just throw your car batteries on a $12 float charger and then forget about them for years? How I long for those days. Welcome to the new era of...
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Destroy Everything You Touch : Managing The Repairs On Your Ebike Fleet
The other day I went out to the ebike shed to try to find something to ride. Much to my dismay, every single bike I owed was broken or out of commission. I had let my maintenance issues fall a little...
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The Lunacycle Apex : The Best Torque Sensing Ebike (a lot of) Money Can Buy
The Apex exceeded my expectations on the street and was a decent single track trail ebike to boot Ever since I started getting into ebikes I’ve wanted to build a high power torque sensing ebike. The...
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It’s Time To Howl, Baby : The Lunacycle 30Q Wolf Pack – 50 Amps Continuous at...
If you don’t care about stealth, the ‘naked’ wolf pack is the way to go, it’s a thing of true beauty Eric from Lunacycle has a great scam going. He sends me new products for testing on his dime, I beat...
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Because The Wifey Demands It : Build A 3000W Electric Wheelbarrow Out Of A...
Everyone has been asking me “Karl, where have you been, we miss you”. My wife and I have untaken some huge projects which has involved moving massive amounts of dirt, woodchips, and seaweed on a nearly...
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Our Not-So-Amish Paradise : Building A 5000W Electric Lawn Tractor With A...
Every cool project needs a decent and terrifying paint job, Happy Halloween kiddies For the last several years my wife and I have gone from a single tiny patch of Asparagus to having Organic and...
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Bzzzzzt : Why Metal Zippers And Male XT60 Connectors Are A Horrible Combination
3 years ago my good friend Laurence showed me a male XT60 connector that had shorted out by hitting something metal in his triangle bag. I had a good laugh at his expense and thought to myself ‘nothing...
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The Little Hub That Could : Build An Electric Wheelbarrow Out Of An Ebike...
Last year I took a 3000W Cyclone mid drive ebike motor and mounted it on a wheelbarrow to make a high power machine that could easily move 500 lbs around the yard for about $450. I decided that it was...
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Use Your Ebike Batteries As A Portable AC Power Source With A $125 48V DC/AC...
The Chinese inverter and 60Ah 48V pack all wrapped up with a trash bag Some ebike bloggers spend their time writing about bikes they have never ridden. This is not that kind of blog, instead, I spend...
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Luna Wolf Packs vs Old-School Shark\Dolphin\Hailong Ebike Frame Packs
In the past several years I’ve owned several different kinds of plastic Chinese cased battery packs, including a 13.5Ah 52v NCRb ‘Shark pack’ (reviewed here in 2016), and two 13.5Ah 52v GA ‘Shark...
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