Re: I want to make an electric bike

["Roy LeMeur" <royster@mcn.org>]

Skylinx wrote:


>Will radioshack serriously be of any help whatsoever?  In my experience,
>they carry overpriced goods and offer very little good advice(they have
>quite a lot of bad advice though).  They don't even seem to know what they
>have(I called about an ir detector module, even after giving them a
>radioshack part # out of their catalog, they still had no clue what I was
>talking about or if they even had any).
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <PrimalDesigns@aol.com>
>To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
>Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:24 PM
>Subject: Re: I want to make an electric bike
>
>
>> Go to radio shack and ask an employee
>>
>
>

I agree, Radio Shack is less than useless.

Following is the info I have sent to the interested party:

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Here's a few links, the first one has lots of good ideas
(they are all good :-)

Great Homemade Bike:
http://www.peltzer.net/ebike/ebike.htm

This one also good:
http://www.stanford.edu/~straubel/ebike.htm

Good info and pics here:
http://www.psi-design.co.uk/ideas/trike/Welcome.htm

Motor Controller Maker's
Website, lots of good
educational material here:
(take the time to look)
http://www.4qd.co.uk/

You will need a motor controller
inexpensive ones here:
http://members.tripod.com/~divelec/hbridge.html

I am electric car and tractor builder
pics and specs at my webpages:
http://www.mcn.org/k/royster/EVpage.html

Hope this stuff helps

Good Luck  :-)