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Yamaha Chappy electric conversion
I have a yamaha chappy in my basement that hasn't worked in years. I
recently decided to convert it into an electric motorcycle. So thus far I have a gutted chappy in my basement. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on what type of motor, motor controller, and batteries I should use? I went to the Coolfuel (a show on the science channel) website and found that what he used in his "electric bush motorcycle" was a 28 Peak HP Advanced DC Motor (www.kta-ev.com/), a Curtis model 1209 400 Amp motor controller (www.kta-ev.com/), and 4 12V Odyssey PC 1200 40 Ah @ 48 Volts batteries (www.odysseyfactory.com/). I would like to be able to go 50-60 mph with about 40+ mile range. Any help on the matter is appreciated. Thanks. |
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Yamaha Chappy electric conversion
wrote in message ups.com... I have a yamaha chappy in my basement that hasn't worked in years. I recently decided to convert it into an electric motorcycle. So thus far I have a gutted chappy in my basement. I was wondering if anyone has any advice on what type of motor, motor controller, and batteries I should use? I went to the Coolfuel (a show on the science channel) website and found that what he used in his "electric bush motorcycle" was a 28 Peak HP Advanced DC Motor (www.kta-ev.com/), a Curtis model 1209 400 Amp motor controller (www.kta-ev.com/), and 4 12V Odyssey PC 1200 40 Ah @ 48 Volts batteries (www.odysseyfactory.com/). I would like to be able to go 50-60 mph with about 40+ mile range. Any help on the matter is appreciated. Thanks. Well they used a Honda Rebel 200cc motorcyle frame and wheel set. Thus they barely had enough room to mount the motor and those big batteries. I don't know where you would put the batteries on that Yamaha Chappy Mini-Bike much less a big electric motor. You would need to fabricate something to mount the electric motor to the existing transmission in order to power it. Or replace the entire engine unit with a electric motor unit. The Yamaha Chappy is not designed to run 50-60 mph anyway. So with all that extra weight it would be dangerous. |
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