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  1. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Some people never learn... For example in rural France intelligent people do car sharing to get to work and thus are less affected by the increase in fuel tax, they pay 25% of fuel bills. The "independent" ones who can't do car sharing for some imagined reason are hanging out on roundabouts in...
  2. anotherkiwi

    Expected lifetime of a BBS02

    Yuck! With luck a good clean and a re-grease you might get lucky. Stay out of the puddles next time! :)
  3. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't quite get what you saying there? How are bad financial choices and being at war 35 years before related? Nobody can predict the future from what has happened in the past but you can have an educated guess. For example 2008 speculative bubble bursts ruining world economy. Since then...
  4. anotherkiwi

    Rio MTB - can you connect lights to controller?

    Today's more powerful lights need more voltage than the controller can provide. It is convenient to be able to turn lights off and on from the LCD but I decided it was better to have them on all the time and so they are hardwired to the battery supply. Turn the battery on the lights come on.
  5. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    - "but we can't see the future" - "stop being so negative, don't you love your country?" - "everything will be fine, the EU needs us more than we need them" - ... Did I forget anything? :rolleyes:
  6. anotherkiwi

    New eBikes and cyclists

    Depends on your mud, mine of course are the 28" size and they handle the little slippery riding I do with ease. They are so sticky both bike and trike are equipped with Big Bens. Stay away from the Big Ben Plus if you can, they have sidewall splitting issues according to the German bike forums.
  7. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The EU being the worlds second largest economy by GDP, with or without the UK...
  8. anotherkiwi

    I'm bent!

    My idea is to build a couple of 25 Ah 6S bricks and series them, they would be balance charged with my Turnigy Reaktors @ 2 Amps. LVC on the LCD3 can be set to 3.2v per cell (2.7v min per Samsung) and I would balance to 4.15v. A 16 or 17 Amp controller would only be drawing 0.33C or so with 10...
  9. anotherkiwi

    New controller

    All 6S? If you parallel a 10 Ah battery and a 5 Ah battery you will get 5 Ah. You will get the capacity printed on the label however and not the usual 80% if you use them alone. My big battery is 2 x 10 Ah 4S paralleled and 2 x 10 Ah 6S paralleled then connected in series for a 16 Ah 36v battery.
  10. anotherkiwi

    Product News ‘See and be seen’: Riese & Müller announce additional safety features

    The ultimate guide for those looking for a rear brake light is here: https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=75171 I will definitely be getting the rear light with brake light from supernova for the trike, it has no equal. But the pricing of the dipping headlight puts it out of...
  11. anotherkiwi

    Product News ‘See and be seen’: Riese & Müller announce additional safety features

    The products in question for those who wish to mount them on their bike: https://shop.supernova-design.com/de_DE/shop/product/supernova-m99-mini-pro-25-140 https://shop.supernova-design.com/de_DE/shop/product/supernova-m99-tail-light-25-195 Magura brakes and levers...
  12. anotherkiwi

    Are Ebikes more or less vulnerable to theft than standard bikes?

    There are less than 30% of speed cameras in working order in France at the moment apparently. Please don't tell Zlatan, he will be upset... :p
  13. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On the 15th of August 1947, the partition of British India caused the movement of 18 million people. This caused both religious and civil tensions between Hindus and Muslims. This resulted in the highest casualty rate for one migration according to the Guinness Book of World Records 2014. One...
  14. anotherkiwi

    New controller

    You can series any size LiPo you want but is is highly recommended they are the same Ah, I also run 4S and 6S 10 Ah LiPo for 37 volts. You can't parallel different sizes. You could series 3 x 2S then parallel with a 6S though.
  15. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You should be happy that the French government is looking after the interests of all UK citizens who have decided to live here and work as public servants.
  16. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Read the German press, of course there are problems absorbing 1.2 million people who don't speak the language. But Germans will be Germans and they are working on it. 20% of the German population has migrant origins. Italians are always complaining about something, in fact most peoples from...
  17. anotherkiwi

    Are Ebikes more or less vulnerable to theft than standard bikes?

    The problem is when you are travelling you don't know where the dodgy areas are, there are no signposts with "Dodgy Area Ahead"... I got caught out a couple of times in Boston (Mass.) one of which a hand gun was waved in my general direction :eek: On your bike you can't stay on the motorway and...
  18. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    He doesn't read the German press... Same in Spain, there are still people alive who remember - some are nostalgic, the majority horrified.
  19. anotherkiwi

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If you are a EU citizen you can be a public servant in France. That means just over a thousand people from the UK are public servants here. This week there was a couple of school teachers in Limoges on TV explaining their great distress. The government has however passed legislation which will...
  20. anotherkiwi

    New controller

    What charger are you using? My chargers have always been set to 4.15v per cell which is the recommended level to preserve LiPo and get more charge cycles. 4.15v x 12 = 49.8 but in general after balancing etc the battery is at about 49.2v I am using a KT 36v 15 Amp controller and see peaks of...