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Electric Watt Hour Meter from AS&S
Electric Watt Hour Meter Disc
Electric Watt Hour Meter Connections
The Electric Motorcycle is looking pretty good! I’ve done quite a bit of work on it lately, welding up a new battery rack, painting the tank and frame, and cleaning up the wiring.
I still have to install the DC/DC converter and wire up the 12V harness.
Yesterday, I brought in my motorcycle gas tank and went to put it on the cycle. But IT DIDN’T FIT! The battery rack is exactly just a little too tall!
After talking with some of the other Makers at the space, it was decided the simple answer was just to trim a little off the bottom of the tank.
Since the gas tank is only really just a cover, mostly there for looks, no reason I can’t add dials and guages directly to the tank! Here’s the video:
Rich N. has been working on a clutch for his latest project: a Ford Ranger electric conversion.
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Yesterday, I finished the upper mounts on the motorcycle battery rack. I actually ended up running out of angle iron for the top hold-downs, but the Makerspace is full of great salvaged materials. I used some of those computer tower case holders as the top brackets. They are sturdy metal and already painted black to boot!
Here’s some video of what I did.