The Team did an initial fitting of the basic Electric Motor System, a Brushless Electric Motor, a Brushless Motor Controller, wiring harnesses & loom, an Electric Twist Grip Throttle and a temporary set of batteries for testing purposes (Last Saturday 30th May) ... (Bottom Photo: Connecting wiring loom to the Brushless Motor Controller).Objective was to go through the basic installation process & perform a basic functionality test on an Electric Motor alone (No pedalling). Once setup, the bike was given two test runs of approximately 350m each way, twice ... whilst using a tuned GPS reciever for accuracy, lads discovered the bicycle computer on the bike was just a little bit inaccurate ... by more than 10Kmh ... ;)
Though just a function test, speed on motor alone was enough to bring a smile to the faces of last years HPV riders ... and that was with what was immediately identified as a couple of bad cells in the test battery strings ... this caused intermittent low voltage status and motor cut-out for a couple of seconds at a time during the runs ...
'Blue Thunder' has now technically, formally transformed from a HPV into a Human-Electric Hybrid ...
Next, controlled test runs in order to capture speed performance under various proposed configurations scheduled for Saturday 06th June.
Speed & most importantly, endurance (distance) optimisations to come once the Team has hard performance data (Hybrid) under simulated race conditions ... November is getting closer :)
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