Stick a fork in it. I think it's done.
It was pretty spectacular and very, very smelly. I'd would have
thought they used blue smoke in it like other electrical stuff but it
was dark gray. How they get that much smoke into something so small
is beyond me.
Too many amps for too long is my initial diagnoses. It got too hot
and the non-twerly bits that where soldered to the twerly bits got
unsoldered. This turned them into little shards of hot bits falling
onto the roadway. Apparently spinning something at high rpm with
high temps is just as good at desoldering as braid. I need to spend
more time at the autopsy table because the wire to the dc/dc
converter is really what caused most of the smoke it turns out.
That wire went from the main pack to the dc/dc to the system ground
as it came out of the dc/dc. It's all toast. Every single millimeter
of the wire burned off its insulation. I came around a turn and
really hammered the throttle and the motor went. As I looked down I
saw the dash light up like a christmas tree. So it looks like the
motor died and in someway that killed the dc/dc?
Anyone care to explain to me your theories of what happened?
I'm not sure if I blew anything else up yet. Let's hope the
controller and em dash are okay.
Pictures:
http://electricmotorcycles.net/modules/xcgal/thumbnails.php?album=1
Mike
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