January 2014 – Page 2

eBikeology Part 1- A personal account on electric bikes

January 28, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

I’ve been operating electric bikes since 2008 after seeing Russ William’s demo his Crystalyte. I always enjoyed biking, but hadn’t been interested in regular use or long rides. The idea of the bike having an electric assist really sparked my interest. I started to do my homework. Since I didn’t have any real starting point, I just looked for resellers of kits. The best bang for the buck I found was with an outfit based out of Kansas called Electric…

Compacting Part 6 – Final results

January 27, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

Now that the work is done, here are my impressions of how it looked and worked. The operation of the light is easy to do while riding. I don’t have any trouble changing modes even while pounding the cranks off road. There isn’t any bouncing of the switch. I think this is in large part to the internal switch circuit already built in the headlamp. I really enjoyed the quick mode changes when approaching danger spots, like dark lit road…

Compacting Part 5 – Installation of new system

January 24, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

It took a bit of effort with the BLS connectors. Once I got the hang of it, the rest of the setup went along fine. First I started out with putting the BLS connector and new wire on the battery pack. I attempted to source some wire at DataPros here in Seattle, but they didn’t offer it. So, I decided to hit the scrap heap and found an old stereo cord that did the trick. Shirk wrapping the connector ends…

CloudACM

Autonomous Computational Machines – From Cloud To Chip

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