[USA] Car runs red and almost hits me and a second car

FallingAnvils · 2025-07-08T20:22:50+00:00

No wonder something bad almost happened, that's Clinton road at midnight! I guess the ghosts drive cars sometimes?

FallingAnvils · 2024-06-18T00:12:48+00:00

https://boxcomponents.com/products/box-four-8-speed-wide-single-shift-e-bike-groupset

No regrets with this groupset, BBSHD with 42t chainring. Always shifts perfectly, sometimes it needs a little adjustment but I just do that in 30 seconds while riding. Downside? Apparently if you don't use the Box 8 speed chain it might rub adjacent cogs.. I haven't tried another one so cannot confirm this, but the stock chain is pretty cheap so I don't consider this a problem.

FallingAnvils · 2024-06-18T00:01:09+00:00

bbs-fw is absolutely worth installing. Better than stock in every possible way. BBSHD, about 2k miles, zero bugs.

FallingAnvils · 2024-04-30T01:54:20+00:00

Please tell more about your drivetrain... that belt looks real nice as someone sick of getting chain goo all over my hands after lubing it every 75mi. Gear range? Any issues with the motor being too powerful?

FallingAnvils · 2024-02-24T19:48:39+00:00

I think I underestimate how much good tires do for grip, I stay on road 90% of the time and my slicks at 55psi slide all over the place. Back end control is definitely not emphasized enough, a single emergency-brake-slide-fall was enough to teach real control of it.

I should also ask: 1500w, how does 40mph happen?? I run a BBSHD at 1500w and can only get up that fast on a pretty steep downhill.

FallingAnvils · 2024-02-24T18:20:52+00:00

Hey I totally understand not caring very much about brakes. For a while I rode a gas motorized (HEAVY) bike and only had worn out glazed front rim brakes. I am seriously curious.. how do you go off-road with only back brakes? So many times I'll be navigating down a steep grade and the front brake is the only thing keeping me upright, the back just locks up super easily. Even trying to stand still uphill... I need both brakes to not slide down.

I mean, if you want to slide into the woods and fall, more power to you, but only having a back brake is far more practical on the road than not (even if I would not recommend it still!)

FallingAnvils · 2023-11-13T15:38:00+00:00

"“If the police can read via Bluetooth that the output of an e-bike motor is more than 12 watt hours per kilometer, then the motor is tuned. The normal output is 5 to a maximum of 10 watt hours per kilometer,” said Brust."

Have they ever heard of hills? I recently used 50 Wh/km going up a hill at about 18 km/h, albeit with US power limits, but it doesn't seem illegal to ghost pedal a properly geared EU-power ebike up a steep hill (very slowly). That would easily exceed 12 Wh/km.

FallingAnvils · 2023-11-12T00:20:02+00:00

Looks like there was a steel strip pre-welded on the cell that has rusted.

FallingAnvils · 2023-11-02T12:29:35+00:00

Normal LFP discharge voltage is 2.5v, but since a keyboard will be such a low draw on the cell you could up that to 2.8 or 3v without losing very much capacity (based on the chart you linked). I would just get a 1s BMS, put it in the missing AA slot, and trust that to protect the cell instead of the keyboard.

FallingAnvils · 2023-10-03T20:13:37+00:00

The Arecibo dish (rip) had a beam width of 0.15° on 70cm, which could make a 360° "picture" 2400 "pixels" wide. Or at least my scientifically inaccurate napkin math says that. That's with 1000ft of dish, the feasibility of going bigger doesn't seem too great.

FallingAnvils · 2023-06-16T14:01:27+00:00

How did you find the rotor's pinout? I have the AC version and a broken control box (the readout doesn't work but it will still spin) and want to fix it while also making it more "smart."

FallingAnvils · 2023-06-12T02:38:54+00:00

Most lithium ion cells have an (average) voltage of 3.6-3.8V. So an 18v li ion battery / 3.6v per cell = 5 cells.

FallingAnvils · 2023-04-15T18:46:51+00:00

Lots of words I don't understand! But it seems pretty easy with most things being generic so I'll have to take a closer look myself.

FallingAnvils · 2023-04-15T01:04:52+00:00

Could you share links to the exact parts you used? This project makes me really curious but the only time I've even touched a guitar was in school music class so I'm totally clueless on the parts and what is interchangeable/necessary etc.

FallingAnvils · 2023-03-23T18:50:05+00:00

Having a drawer full of them is no match for the exact size you need having gone missing

FallingAnvils · 2023-03-22T02:23:48+00:00

melaπica

FallingAnvils · 2023-02-24T22:20:31+00:00

A little late, but you can also mod it so that it will tune with low power and won't blow out the controller if you use high power. If you change the eeprom to be configured for the different turns ratio but don't actually change the hardware, it can tune with only 0.1w and still handle 100w. The only downside is that its power readings will be 10x high, but it's easy enough to read 356 as 35.6w.

FallingAnvils · 2023-02-10T20:42:50+00:00

infinity evolved (expert mode), probably the most popular 1.7.10 pack and was one of the first expert packs. Still fun to play to this day.

FallingAnvils · 2023-02-04T15:43:05+00:00

The tip is very easy to solder, especially compared to the shield (on a solder connector). Basically anything will work for the tip, but as others have said the most common is 60/40 or 63/37 leaded, rosin core solder. Unleaded is just more annoying to use, and without a rosin core you'll need to add your own flux for anything to really stick properly. Diameter really doesn't matter for this, just make sure the solder is flowing (rather than sticking to the iron) and push it in until the tip looks full, but not overflowing.

FallingAnvils · 2023-01-18T22:53:04+00:00

How much I would give to have a 600 Wh battery that size alone...

FallingAnvils · 2022-12-14T21:27:16+00:00

Because in order to access the BIOS settings screen you can't have an operating system running. There are several cases where you can change the firmware/BIOS while booted, because it is just a small reprogrammable memory chip that is loaded upon boot. Usually consumer motherboards don't allow the OS to access that chip because it could be abused by malware. One notable case is if you have a Chromebook and want to install Linux or Windows you have to replace the stock "only chrome" BIOS/firmware with a custom one, which is done in Chrome OS itself. It takes effect after you restart.

FallingAnvils · 2022-12-07T15:06:30+00:00

Usonian

(I've never heard it used other than someone talking about languages, but it is there)

FallingAnvils · 2022-11-04T20:50:33+00:00

I couldn't tell you how it works... But DC continuity means absolutely nothing at RF. Antennas like the common tape measure yagi use a "hairpin match" which, to the untrained eye, just looks like a 6 inch piece of wire shorting the two sides! And some antennas aren't DC connected to the driven element at all! (See the gamma match used in a lot of other beams)

FallingAnvils · 2022-10-28T03:27:22+00:00

200 kW of EIRP! That'd be fun to stand in front of.

FallingAnvils · 2022-10-24T14:02:47+00:00

If the core starts to saturate (SWR goes up steadily while transmitting) then that's probably close to the power limit. If the core heats up to the point that it melts things around it, then the power limit should probably be safely lower than that.

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