The Xenia project has been officially launched this weekend.
Several months ago I picked up an old beat up and broken down X-Treme X-500 scooter. It was in pretty bad shape. The throttle had been smashed, the controller was fried, the front brake was missing some parts, and, just to top it off, the front tire was flat.
That scooter, had it been in good working order, is one of the more powerful stand-up scooters you can buy. It comes with a 500 watt motor, running on 48 volts. That gives it great acceleration, and allows it to carry a good 200 pound load up a hill.
My plan is to put a 6000 watt brushless motor in it. Yeah, that's not a typo. It really is a six thousand watt motor. But I'll be running it at 51.2 volts at a max of 25 amps, which will put it at roughly 1280 watts.
I'm putting in 4 12.8 volt 6.8 amp hour Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePo) batteries, which should give me a range of around 5-8 miles, depending on weight, speed, surface conditions, tire pressure, moon phase, bean leach efficiency, proximity of hummingbirds, etc.
So, this weekend, I finally took the old beastie all apart, cleaned everything, remeasured everything, and ordered all the parts.
And so it begins...
The parts laying around are all the old parts I took out. And that old 500 watt motor is heavier than it looks.
Now I get to wait for all the new parts to come in.
Several months ago I picked up an old beat up and broken down X-Treme X-500 scooter. It was in pretty bad shape. The throttle had been smashed, the controller was fried, the front brake was missing some parts, and, just to top it off, the front tire was flat.
That scooter, had it been in good working order, is one of the more powerful stand-up scooters you can buy. It comes with a 500 watt motor, running on 48 volts. That gives it great acceleration, and allows it to carry a good 200 pound load up a hill.
My plan is to put a 6000 watt brushless motor in it. Yeah, that's not a typo. It really is a six thousand watt motor. But I'll be running it at 51.2 volts at a max of 25 amps, which will put it at roughly 1280 watts.
I'm putting in 4 12.8 volt 6.8 amp hour Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePo) batteries, which should give me a range of around 5-8 miles, depending on weight, speed, surface conditions, tire pressure, moon phase, bean leach efficiency, proximity of hummingbirds, etc.
So, this weekend, I finally took the old beastie all apart, cleaned everything, remeasured everything, and ordered all the parts.
And so it begins...
The parts laying around are all the old parts I took out. And that old 500 watt motor is heavier than it looks.
Now I get to wait for all the new parts to come in.
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