I have the same problem with my Currie scooter. Actually my kids have the problem after driving for 20-30 minutes in the grass (I won't allow the 8 year old on the road, even with a headgear). My soluction? I'm installing one of our Neodynium rotor motors with high current MOSFET's. It is a nice coincidence that our motors are a drop in replacement for the Currie!. Your option? stick a fan cooled heatsink on the side of the Currie motor with good gap filler material to make up for the imperfections between the heatsink and motor. Rod
Lawrence Rhodes wrote: > Well I have over heated my Currie electric bike conversion 3 times and my > wife also overheated it over the course of the 2 or 3 years that we have had > it. It cost 600 bucks but seemed to work well on the flats. It however > doesn't work well on hills which is the reason that we have it. It now > after being heated up and gone into nowork mode to save itself from frying > won't work at full speed anymore. Currie wouldn't give us a new motor when > we first bought it saying they all do that. What can I do about fixing this > motor so it will be a better hill performer. We have probably only put a > few hundred miles on it in a couple or three years. It is fully enclosed > with no venting. Mirror finish case. Lawrence Rhodes.... > >
