So am I right in guessing that the standard 12v motor will happily run on 24v? I assume the control box/pod wouldn't though?
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The Adam Harper 24v "turbo" conversion did manage to use the standard Pod (and I think it kept the control box ?) but was not cheap , around £500 ? A cheaper version was offered by the previous owners of c5alive that did not use the standard control box or pod.
Although the motors seem to cope well ,both 24v conversions suffered from the same snag - the standard gearbox cannot cope. Adam upgraded the gearbox by fitting metal cogs and strengthening the internals but even this wasn't strong enough to cope. Take a browse through the following links;
http://c5alive.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1524.0http://c5alive.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=967.0 http://c5alive.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1261.0In short, upgrading the power will cause problems somewhere. Once the "transmission" problems are overcome you then have to look at improving the brakes etc etc. The Dragon technology gearbox copes very well, but then we found the resin in the Sinclair motor started to let go of the magnets, so we're looking at alternative motors.
Experimenting like this is all good fun and is what my C5 "Voodoo" was built for , it has been the test bed for all the various motor/gearbox combo's we've tried so far and this still continues today...