Burgerman wrote:1. You should have bought a bigger faster longer range scooter. So if possible change the order. Now you are trying to get a quart from a pint pot.
I agree but beggars can't be choosers,
my province is funding it for me and the way they do it is, each region has a supplier(s) the ministry works with (big places have more than 1 choice but I live in the sticks) anyway the supplier in my area is a vendor for pride mobility, golden technologies, heartway and sunrise medical.
Currently im 430lbs (down from 472lbs and in a medically monitored weight-loss program so hopefully i'll be out of the 400's soon) but till then if its funded before hand they wont fund any of the other models, not that that help cause most if not all use smaller batteries or the same.
although even if I got down to 350 or less for say the pride wrangler
so of those vendors only pride mobility & golden technologies have a scooter that is rated above 400lbs ( the pride maxima and the golden avenger ) both use dual 22NF batteries.
Burgerman wrote:2. No you cant make it significantly faster.
youtube was giving me false hopes of maybe in the future doing a slight lift to increase the wheel size and/or overvolting to increase speed cause I read those are the primary methods to increase speed but I'm forgetting all that garbage especially for now so no weeping needed.
Burgerman wrote:You will, IF you have acess to a programmer gain around 5% in speed, with lithium.
cool, 5% would be better than not, hypothetically where would I acquire such a programer?
Burgerman wrote:3. FORGET all the garbage you saw on youtube about lithium batteries. It makes me weep every time I watch some link people post.
okie dokie
Burgerman wrote:4. 22nf is a hard size to to gain the real benefits of lithium as all the best cells that happen to fit neatly without wastd space work best in a group24 swap. Hence another reason to get a bigger, faster, longer range scooter. With a group 24 swap, we typically end up with a 200Ah plus battery in the same space. Much less in a grp22nf. And a highr C rate loading and so shorter lifespan.
I wont know for sure how much space I have to work with till I get mine but based on the unboxing videos I see it doesnt look like it'd have the extra length or height for group24 without removing the battery cover and building a replacement which I have seen some youtube vids of people doing to scooters
otherwise its got that 1" trailer receiver behind the chair if I need even more range I could hypothetically build a external battery box from one of the accessory baskets they make fore that for even more capacity, but I still want the core scooter to get as much range I can squeeze into its main compartment.
Burgerman wrote:5. Done PROPERLY you can get around 4x the range of lead.
so hypothetically what resources do you recommend to do it properly?
Burgerman wrote:But remember that the range that you get from lead will be around 1/2 the claimed range in real world conditions.
I Imagine thats the case as range can vary greatly based on my weight, hills etc. luckily my area isn't too hilly and im loosing weight so far
Burgerman wrote:And thats only with the highest quality batteries.
thats where I figure since im on the hook for batteries regardless of SLA (gel or agm) or lithium/lifepo4 and high quality SLA look to be 250CAD a piece.
so even gong SLA it looks like im dropping $500 ( $386 USD) I figure it might be worth it to pay the $1000+ or whatever more and get lifepo4 the bat since i'm Saving on not having to buy the scooter anyway.