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Old 03-16-2010, 06:58 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Well I ended up replacing the hacksaw blade field reduction resistor with a long section of heavy guage wire and sucess!

I now can hit 38mph on flat ground with a slight tail wind, 35mph is reliable under most conditions and 33mph into the wind on a slight incline.

Trouble is my amps are around 125amps at 33mph into a headwind up an incline and about 100amps at 38mph with this new resistor.

I really wish a decent variable field reduction schematic would be made, depending on the situation more or less field reduction works better.

Cheers
Ryan
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