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A DIY Tracker Tough Enough for the Arctic

Cars That Think

So, I set about building an open-source ice tracker from DIY components that not only proved to be much, much cheaper but also much more capable than the commercial options. This consumed around 350 milliamperes while running at 5 volts for about 1.7 watts, but the Apollo3 uses just 500 microamperes at 3.3 microwatts.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

Here I took advantage of already owning an electric lawnmower, figuring that the 40-volt, 4-ampere-hour battery I had for it would serve well. The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller.

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

Cars That Think

Searching the interwebs, I found no shortage of leads about how to build a DIY seismometer. The problem is that the DIY seismometer designs I was seeing were large and ungainly contraptions. I investigated what some other Web-connected Raspberry Shakes had recorded during that earthquake. I used a Raspberry Pi Model 3B+.

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Tech: How to Troubleshoot Electrical Issues

Clean Fleet Report

Although these problems can root in various reasons, such as a loose electrical connection, a blown fuse, or even parts that excessively drain your battery, getting your vehicle up and going again need not be overly complicated or painful. With the engine turned off, the multimeter should read 12 to 13 volts.

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Initial Orion Software Settings help

DIY Electric Car

Now I need to upload the settings need for my 8 LG Chem 44 volt batteries. I am planning on tapping in to each cell manually and then connecting each battery individually to make sure each battery is recognized by itself (after triple checking with my multimeter of coarse). Once all the batteries work with the Orion BMS.

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Electric Bike Conversion Kit Selection

Electric Vehicless

Front wheel connected conversion kit- very easy to install but less popular. Rear wheel connected conversion kit – In comparison to front wheel little but tough but most popular. Mid drive connected conversion kit – less popular & tough to install. Battery capacity Watt-hours = Amp -hrs X Volts .

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