Energy for the New AgeAt least consider it!

Here’s a quick video of my electric bike and solar panel kit that charges it. The bike has a 200w motor and a 13ah battery. The bike is power assist, so the motor kicks in when you are pedaling and it makes going up hills a breeze, although you still have to work. The solar panel system that charges the bike is 3 x 80w panels on the roof, down to 20A regulator and 4 x 130ah deep cycle batteries up to a 600w pure sine inverter. The bike draws around 50 amps when charging the battery, and a full charge takes around 4 to 5 hours or so. The solar setup is of course overkill for charging an electric bike, but I use the solar power for other things too. Eventually I’d like to build the solar kit to charge an electric car, when that time comes. My goal was to have a zero emissions mode of powered transport, and this is what has been achieved with the solar powered bike.

A homemade anomometer I made a while back from a digital bicycle speedometer when I was experementing with homemade wind turbine generators. A must have if you want to figure out the efficiency of your home made turbine. Something of note that I forgot to mention in the vid is that this speedometer in particular stores past averages speeds, which is a nice feature to look for if you go to buy one. The most important thing to keep in mind with this project is the size of the bicycle wheel the device is set to meter vs. the size of your anemometer turbine. Parts: Cateye Enduro 8 Bike Speedometer RC car wheel and bearing 4 vending machine “eggs” 1 bolt 2 nuts 1 thin wire 1 random steel rod wire ties Videos of homemade wind turbines coming in spring.

I hope to use this set up for a wind turbine design at some point

US.itselectric.ca This is a custom solar panel bike that we helped one of our customers put together. This solar panel, supplied by Sedmek Inc. trckle charges the battery whenever the sun is present! A modified 36v 2A charger is mounted underneath the 3 solar panels. The AC side of the charger is romoved allowing for DC to DC charging. Each solar panel is about 10W.

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