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Electric bike version 2
A second attempt at a battery operated electric bike
This was my first real attempt at an electric bike. I bought a brushed DC hub motor kit from batteryspace.com (they no longer sell the kit but it was sold as EB-KIT600W24). It came with a motor controller and throttle switch to mount on the handle bars.
I don’t remember what I used for a battery.
This kit worked great until I took the motor apart one day and decided to clean the brushes. This in itself was not an issue but I got the brilliant (definitely not brilliant!) idea to put dielectric grease on the brushes. The next time I tried to ride it, the brushes got so hot that the carrier melted and I had to walk the bike to work on the western PA back roads I used to commute on.
It was fun while it lasted but not really worth fixing.
Next up: brushless!