I spent last weekend building the batteries for the two electric bikes we are building, which took a lot longer than I thought it would. Firstly the packaging. Sending LiFePO4 cells by air demands very special packaging. No more than two cells can be packed together in an inner package, and the outer packaging and…
Category: Electric Bikes
The trials and highlights of building and using E-Bikes
Electric bikes – Stuff is arriving
In fact, all the expected parcels are here, and I can start to see what is missing! The battery racks arrived yesterday, and one went straight onto my bike, but the one for Lynn’s bike is taking a little sorting. Lynn is only 153cm tall, and her bile has 700C wheels, so making a bike…
Electric bikes – delivery progress
The battery packs arrived a week or so ago, which was a real surprise. Just the cells though, no bus bars or holders, so I can’t actually get on with building the batteries. They were repackaged to conform with the transport laws regarding Lithium batteries (two cells per inner package, all in an outer package…
Electric bikes – It starts
The backstory Lynn (my better half) and I want electric bikes. I have wanted one since I was 12, when I used to live in one of the few towns in Cheshire in the UK with a reasonable number of hills (well one great big one rising out of the middle of the town!). This…