Recent content by bmscott

That's pretty remarkable - I've been doing my wild-guess estimates based on my wife's electric bike, which at 250 watts is pretty anemic except on gentle downhill slopes. Meanwhile my electric car draws about 6 amps just to idle (it's that stupid feature that simulates a torque converter's...

The goal is to learn from making mistakes. Everything I've had someone teach me, I only know superficially. Stuff I've taught myself, mistakes and all, ends up being the fields I've built my 2-3 careers on. Ideally, of course, you combine the two, but I haven't mastered that trick yet! (I've...

OK guys, thanks for the advice but you're not really hearing me either. My kids aren't going anywhere near this thing, not the first few revisions anyway. My wife was an ER nurse, she won't even let me ride a Honda scooter... You've made some decent points - I should have mentioned that I...

Umm, how much torque do you think I'll be putting on these wheels at first?? 500 watts pushing (what I'm guessing will end up close to) 400 lbs isn't exactly burning rubber. If I get 10kph on level ground with version 1 I'll be impressed... side loading I get, spoked wheels not built for that...

Hey all - new here, but have been skimming some relevant threads. I'm cobbling together a vague plan to build some kind of fun electric kart over the next few months, and as an exercise, see how inexpensively I can do it. Most of the process seems pretty straightforward - I have plenty of...

This is good stuff - not incredibly far from what I'm planning, although I'm going to start a separate thread as my focus is on super-low-cost. Still, your motor and battery setup are in the same range as mine and you're getting a lot more speed than I was hoping for, which is good news! And...