Aerial Pictures
Builds
Drones I have built
Soldering
Picture to the left and one above, the one of the board. This battery had problems charging. When I pulled it apart and found out that the balance board was burn. All the cells read correct voltage, so the board was the only problem. The board above is a component that went into my last drone build (picture right above this one). Just shows how small this component is next to my hand.
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Scooters
Scooters were dead and won't charge. Lead acid batteries are terrible in electric scooters. We had this bigger batters (picture above on the right). Problem is that it wouldn't fit in the scooters because I had to stack two on top of each other instead of side by side. Under these seats there are compartments. I was able to stack them on top and cut out the compartment on the scooter to fit both batteries. If buy it brand new it barely lasts 20 minutes. With the new batteries it consistently lasts for 20 minutes now.
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Razor Electric Motorcycles
These bikes were a lot harder to modify then I thought. I had this guy come up to me and told me "I bought these razor bikes. They are super slow though and they can't hold a charge. I just want to be able to take my kids to school on it. My kids just ride their bikes but I want to ride these. Is there some way we can make these things last longer." I told him if he is going to all the trouble to make it last longer, we might as well make it faster as well. We found a conversion kit that said it would work. Determined best battery would be a lithium iron phosphate because he doesn't know how to take care of a battery. don't need much care and you can charge them whenever you desire. The first problem we ran into was the frame wouldn't fit the motor. So we had to modify the frame and reweld it together to properly fit the battery into place. The second problem I ran into was the motor just didn't work. I checked all my wiring and nothing looked wrong. I didn't want to send it back to warranty it because it would take another month. I took the motor apart and saw that the connections were apart. I reconnected the wiring and was able to put it back together and got it going. I wanted to ride it around to make sure everything was working correctly. I took a strap and just wrapped it all up standing up so it so it wouldn't fall out. It worked perfectly. The battery was way bigger then the lead acid batteries. On the red bike I had to stand up the batter and strap it down with galvanized hanger strap. I didn't want it digging into the battery so I added foam on top the battery. Well the yellow and orange bikes I was able to just lay the battery flat on the bottom. The bikes lasts for about 2 hours of constant riding and goes 23 mph. With 200lb person riding it.