eCagiva got new batteries and wow – the performance is bit different… Now I can quite easily keep up in traffic and bypass cars. It seems to be quite fun bike to drive now 
New batteries are Kokam 70 Ah pouch-cells and the bike has 22 pcs of them. In the first few test rides the raw electric peak-power was somewhere around 14 kW when measured from the battery. A bit of dissapointment was that both motor and the controller heat up very quickly. I think there must be some sort of parameter to tweak in the motor controller (Sigmadrive/DMC 450A/80V 865L). Or I must provide additional cooling for them somehow.
Here is the first driving video with the new batteries:
I have also made an GPS-logger for testing my conversions. It logs current, voltage and GPS position & speed. All data gets written to the microSD-card as an TXT-file. I’m converting that file to the Google Earth for viewing – here’s quick screenshot of rendering the latest log in Google Earth;
EVlogger data in Google Earth
I’ll tell more about the EVLogger in another post.
I could really use a brief rundown of the lithiummate pro. We have been going over the manual and cannot seem to get a handle on it. Would you know another resource to get such information? Thanks in advance.
By: Tim Smith on October 23, 2012
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I have mostly read it from the manual. Are there any particular issues you need clarification on? Also perhaps you could try to ask diyelectriccar.com forums about the issues you are having.
By: randomev on October 26, 2012
at 19:18