Jérôme» jos http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog Half robot, half g33k. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 EVPlasmaman scooter http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/10/evplasmaman-scooter/ http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/10/evplasmaman-scooter/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:47:56 +0000 Jerome http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/?p=267

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95DGZ94Nq9s

When I was at the Maker faire 2009, I saw this guy pass me with a electric scooter. I remember seen that scooter on the internet, his personnal website http://blog.evplasmaman.com/.

I yelled  ” hey man” and he stop and we start talking. His name is Jos :)

He use a 3000W ( 4HP ) AXI 5345/18 GOLD LINE brushless motor.MAKER_FAIRE_2009_ 113

He also use Lithium Iron phosphate (LiFePO4 ) battery

The setup use 48 A123 cells.  4 cells in parallel and then 12 sets of those in series to make ~42Volts.

Is top speed is 20Mph. He also has a 3:1 planetary gear box. It turn out to be 4:1 with the ratio of the chain.

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The gear box is from Matex gears.

You can find more picture here http://photo.gangus.com/v/Jos/scooter/ and on his personnal blog http://blog.evplasmaman.com/.

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