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a little over a hour if you do not max out the throttle the whole time. It has mass torque takeoff, and goes 30mph.
I chnaged the gearing to 12t front sprocket to 72t rear. What I like about the Electric is that the kid can drive it around the neighborhood and not piss them off with a loud motor.
Its a 52v 20ah battery pack. I am going to make a custom fiberglass battery pack holder for it in place of the cheap triangle battery bag.
I chnaged the gearing to 12t front sprocket to 72t rear. What I like about the Electric is that the kid can drive it around the neighborhood and not piss them off with a loud motor.
Its a 52v 20ah battery pack. I am going to make a custom fiberglass battery pack holder for it in place of the cheap triangle battery bag.
Yeah same here. Its not worth the $ to do unless you really really love it.
It prob cost me about $1400 for the motor, controller, battery. So your normal Baja mini goes for $400-500, adding these components to resell it, you would never recoup your costs.
Here are the major purchases for the conversion:
Motor: motenergy/mars 4201
Controller: Kelly KLS7222H,24V-72V,220A SineWave Controller
Battery: 52v Samsung INR18650 25r 20ah 50a/80a max - Triangle battery (for ebike)
Motor Sprocket 12t - Rear Sprocket 72t
Its possible to go cheap and use a chinese controller, I would not recommend using SLA batteries as they are Heavy. Lithuim 18650's packs with a balancer on them are easy for plug and play charging. Expensive though. RC Lipo's are cheap, but you have to know what your doing or fire may happen!
It prob cost me about $1400 for the motor, controller, battery. So your normal Baja mini goes for $400-500, adding these components to resell it, you would never recoup your costs.
Here are the major purchases for the conversion:
Motor: motenergy/mars 4201
Controller: Kelly KLS7222H,24V-72V,220A SineWave Controller
Battery: 52v Samsung INR18650 25r 20ah 50a/80a max - Triangle battery (for ebike)
Motor Sprocket 12t - Rear Sprocket 72t
Its possible to go cheap and use a chinese controller, I would not recommend using SLA batteries as they are Heavy. Lithuim 18650's packs with a balancer on them are easy for plug and play charging. Expensive though. RC Lipo's are cheap, but you have to know what your doing or fire may happen!
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Yeah I soon found out it's worth more in parts than as a whole.
If I lived in a neighborhood like that I might consider doing it to a mini but frankly I live in the sticks and can run a v8 drag truck with open headers at 1am with no problems. Toting a gallon of gas in the woods to get it back is easier than pushing it back to charge. I do like it and respect the work involved.
If I lived in a neighborhood like that I might consider doing it to a mini but frankly I live in the sticks and can run a v8 drag truck with open headers at 1am with no problems. Toting a gallon of gas in the woods to get it back is easier than pushing it back to charge. I do like it and respect the work involved.