Electric bikes – justice?
Today I went into Porirua to do some banking. I arrived at a left turn into a T junction, and had seen the car waiting to turn right into the same road with a give way line in front of …
Author: Dave
Windows 10 update issues, March 2016
I have had a spate of issues with Windows 10 computers recently, with symptoms such as not shutting down, not restarting, black screen on restarting, very, very slow running and a few others. The common thread in them all seems …
Electric Bikes – another milestone
Yes, last week (Thursday 18th Feb 2016) I made it past 5000kms on the e-bike. Given the trials and tribulations we have been through with our bikes and our health, its amazing to get this many kilometres on. Lynn has …
Electric Bikes – schools are back!
After 6 or 7 weeks of the schools being closed for the long Christmas/Summer break, today I think all the schools I pass on the way to work were back. This means horrendous traffic, 4wd tractors driven mostly by parents …
Electric Bikes – high current connectors
Electric bikes don’t use excessively high ampages, or at least they shouldn’t in theory. A 300w motor on a 36v battery, should use just 300/36 amps, or 8.333 amps. Of course this is not how smart motors work, nor how …
Electric Bikes – electronics and water!
Sounds like a bad combination doesn’t it? Yet after nearly 18 months of using two bikes in all weathers, we have never had an issue with electronics affected by water. Heat? Yes. Water? No. Until yesterday that is, but it …
Electric bikes – summer must be here!
Because, once again, my bike is off the road! Early this week I had the following problems all in the same day – a puncture, a broken spoke nipple causing the whole wheel to go out of alignment, another melted …
Electric Bikes – 4000km
Well, we can’t quite match the ebike tourists and their 11000+ kilometres, with photos every thousand kilometres to prove it, but today the odometer tripped over to 4000km, once again on the way back from a lunchtime coffee from the …
Electric Bikes – electrical troubles
Our bikes are used quite hard at times, and the electrical system is mostly homemade, so we can expect a few problems occasionally. This week I have not done well at all! It started on Monday morning, I had just …
Multi Cell Voltmeter
The big order of Arduino related products has started to arrive, the key components, the Arduino mega 2560 clone and the TFT LCD screen arrived two days ago, along with some of the voltage sensors, and most of the jumper …