Sunday, August 15, 2010

My Dream Dashboard

I'm planning out what controls I want to build into the custom dial setup for the bike. 
  1. Speed, rated in Miles Per Hour and Kilometers Per Hour
  2. RPM rate of the drive motor
  3. RPM rate of the charge motor
  4. Discharge Current Rate
  5. remaining Voltage on the battery bank
  6. Charge rate for any charge type that is currently being used
  7. Possibly a running "Remaining Time" on the batteries for the current use rate.
  8. Possibly a "Remaining Time" based on average use of the trip.
Most of these types of sensors will be easy to come by, and fairly standard.  The last 2 would require me to create a small control computer for the bike to run the calculations.  Not really impossible, but definitely more work.

For the first bike I will probably go with the first 6 sensors, and just take lots of notes on usage for the bike.  Of course, I could always just have the control computer hooked into a real computer, and store data there.  I guess it all just depends on what my end price and time frame for construction look like.

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