EV on American Chopper

[cowtown]

I use to watch American Chopper a few years ago, but gave up on the  
drama aspect. Don't know how long this has been out (they repeat  
episodes constantly), but I happened by TLC tonight and I see they are  
doing an electrified chopper.

Sears must be one of the sponsors [big Die Hard batteries (SLAs)  
feature prominently], an Advanced DC motor (they call them to find out  
how to make more room for mounting - whacking the internal fan made me  
cringe), and an Alltrax controller...it's enough power to get around,  
but I think they are more interested in looks than performance. Wish  
they had chosen smaller cells, higher voltage, and a little injection  
of "Zilla green"!

Anyone else seen this episode? Any comments on their process or the  
end result?

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[cowtown]

A web search proved the American Chopper episode is a few weeks old,  
so I apologize if this had been discussed already...but if the project  
was sponsored by Siemens, why not use one of *their* drive systems?

Publicity states "100mph top speed, 60mi range" - 6 big AGMs should be  
enough for that, but how fast have they actually taken it?

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[Dennis Miles-2]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:06 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

> A web search proved the American Chopper episode is a few weeks old,
> so I apologize if this had been discussed already...but if the project
> was sponsored by Siemens, why not use one of *their* drive systems?
>
> Publicity states "100mph top speed, 60mi range" - 6 big AGMs should be
> enough for that, but how fast have they actually taken it?
>
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> ==============how fast????=======================
>
>From the video, it was a beautiful design project and the finished bike

looks darn good. But, I suspect it hasn't been over 30 mph, except on a
trailer.  LOL (;-))
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[Alan Brinkman]

I saw the American Chopper episode you mentioned recently. It was
interesting to see a DC motor and controller used. I thought they should
have made the frame from scratch, not shorten the motor, just drive the
rear wheel with one chain, not from both sides. It was an interesting
design. Battery selection and making the batteries and parts more open
for repairs would have been a help. The oddest thing was the number of
times that staff was shocked, and the number of shorts they had. I would
like to have seen the top speed they ran, and how far they could travel
on a charge. I hope I do not sound negative, the show was entertaining.

Alan

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Subject: [EVDL] EV on American Chopper

I use to watch American Chopper a few years ago, but gave up on the  
drama aspect. Don't know how long this has been out (they repeat  
episodes constantly), but I happened by TLC tonight and I see they are  
doing an electrified chopper.

Sears must be one of the sponsors [big Die Hard batteries (SLAs)  
feature prominently], an Advanced DC motor (they call them to find out  
how to make more room for mounting - whacking the internal fan made me  
cringe), and an Alltrax controller...it's enough power to get around,  
but I think they are more interested in looks than performance. Wish  
they had chosen smaller cells, higher voltage, and a little injection  
of "Zilla green"!

Anyone else seen this episode? Any comments on their process or the  
end result?

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