I donāt know anything about SS since the tragedy.If you ask the new owners of ss, they say their scooters never fail
Tomorrow marks 5 years for me.
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I donāt know anything about SS since the tragedy.If you ask the new owners of ss, they say their scooters never fail
Huh? Stator design can potentially help to reduce cogging torque and make it a bit smoother while the motor starts up, but that only matters for a fraction of second. At cruise speed the angular velocity is high enough on any scooter motor that cogging torque becomes insignificant. The continuous torque while cruising is a function of the prop radius and force put into it by the motor. You can't reduce that torque without also reducing thrust. Ļ = r Ć FTorque reduction systems exists. Namely stators.
Not if you are scooting in the open or anywhere swiming back is not too unreasonable. As you say:Bottom line: PTBs are too unreliable
Mostly because there isn't anything between the $2k of a BlackTip and the $8k+ of the non-PTB scooters (that are worth it).The BlackTip is King for people spending less than $7K.
Sounds great, but overkill for a lot of scooting that doesn't need the high end capability and reliability of a Genesis. I'll probably get one as an intermediate step as I start doing more serious scooting, before I graduate to a big boy scooter.But, I counsel anyone who buys a BlackTip to buy a custom battery pack from someplace like @Jona Silverstein at Explorer Technology. Unless your real intent is to fly with it. Then you have no real option except PTBs (or a Genesis...).
For a BT Tech, it's a 20Ah/36V pack, so 720 W-Hr, versus the 432 W-Hr you get with a pair of 12Ah PTBs. You pay more and you get more. And what you get that isn't directly measurable is vastly improved reliability.
The pack is "propietary", but it's not stupid expensive, on a per W-Hr basis, like (for example) Seacraft and Suex battery packs are.
That's my real point! The BlackTip and the Genesis have now proved that at both ends of the price spectrum.I think we are DEFINITELY tired of batteries that are stupidly expensive to replace.
Tomorrow marks 5 years for me.
Scooter is a āneedā rather then āwantā to being able to move when you start doing certain types of dives with lots heavy stuff attached to your body where there is heavy flow or current.I can't understand the point of a scooter, if I want to move fast I do a drift dive, otherwise I want to go slow so I can see things. Some dive sites are meant to go slow, but others are meant to go fast like canyons or kilima drift. No scooter can compare to the speed of kilima drift.
So why are you on a DPV forum?I can't understand the point of a scooter, if I want to move fast I do a drift dive, otherwise I want to go slow so I can see things. Some dive sites are meant to go slow, but others are meant to go fast like canyons or kilima drift. No scooter can compare to the speed of kilima drift.
I can't understand the point of a scooter, if I want to move fast I do a drift dive, otherwise I want to go slow so I can see things. Some dive sites are meant to go slow, but others are meant to go fast like canyons or kilima drift. No scooter can compare to the speed of kilima drift.
Where I live there is $2995 (As of todayās exchange rate) difference between Seacraft Future 1000 vs Suex XJS, which makes Suex no brainer choice.
If I was living anywhere near North America, I would buy a Genesis in a heartbeat.