{"id":3036,"date":"2015-01-25T21:42:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T02:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2015-01-25T21:45:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T02:45:20","slug":"electrifying-franken-trike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/electrifying-franken-trike\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrifying Franken-Trike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franken-Trike is big and heavy. And it&#8217;s only going to get bigger and heavier once I finish the rain cover. So I added an electric motor to it&#8230; Weight with motor and battery is now 80 pounds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"ebike_parts\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ebike_parts.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a Chinese generic hub motor, controller, LCD display that includes speedometer and odometer, along with a &#8220;water bottle&#8221; style 36v 10aH Li-Ion battery pack. The motor claims to be 500 watts, and the battery claims to be able to provide 540 watts (15 amps * 36 volts), but on steep hills I have to petal a bit myself to maintain speed. On level ground it can get the bike up to a scary enough 10 mph by itself, and I expect it will fulfill its purpose of making my commute into less of a taxing workout of lugging the monster bike up the big hill&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"water_bottle_battery\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/water_bottle_battery.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franken-Trike is big and heavy. And it&#8217;s only going to get bigger and heavier once I finish the rain cover. So I added an electric motor to it&#8230; Weight with motor and battery is now 80 pounds. This is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/electrifying-franken-trike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68,118],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-ebike","tag-trike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}