Benjamin James Chapel

Benjamin James Chapel

@benjaminjames.bsky.social

Power Ranger, Safety Professional. Cyclist, Recovering Motorist. Covid free since 2019.(He/Him) I’m a shooting star in the rain.

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Sitting in a clinic waiting on them to perform bloodletting. I’m reminded of taking my dad to that cataract clinic on Taylor. It was full of aged folks waiting in between pupil dilation and their examinations. So none of them could see, plus they were all hard of hearing.

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hey everybody, You know how Canadian comics from the Dumbells to Wayne and Shuster and on to SCTV are always the best at sending up the yanks? This fella from Australia just summarized the current #canada better than most explanations i've heard. It takes an outsider to see the truth it seems.

I, again, put a motor and two batteries on a fat bike this past winter. This one has a Bafang BBShd at 52 volts. It has a 15 AH primary and a 10 AH range extender. I have no idea how far it can go, but my backside seems to be good for about 25 km.

I purposely kept my speed under 35 km/hr to check efficiency. I pushed 360 watt hours combined thru the chargers to bring the batteries back up to 100 percent. Assuming 80% charger efficiency, the bike used 288 watt-hrs to travel 22 km. (13.75 miles)

E-bike(s) carried me 26 km today, 20 of those were questionably faster than 32/ km/hr. Dumping current back into the batteries to charge back up… 920 watt/hours. @10.5 cents/Kwatt-hr = approximately 9.6 cents to travel today

I was intending to install my brand new 52 volt 10 AH battery (Samsung type S cells at 14s2p) with Bluetooth battery BMS (yes I know battery BMS is redundant), in place of a production 48 volt pack and I dropped it.