Originally Posted by
riva
Exactly, you would be lucky to get half the capacity out draining these slas in half an hour. Thats why I said you will more than double your range with two packs in parallel. You're cutting the load in half- greatly reducing that peukurt effect. For this reason IMO its silly to have two packs available and switch between them using only one at a time.
If you wire two packs in parallel, that's 48 volts going to the 24-volt motor and controller. You say you will "more than double your range with two packs in parallel". Well, when you switch between the two stock battery packs, you ALSO are doubling your range. And as far as all these so-called people running higher voltages to the Currie 24-volt brushless motor, when I see it on a Youtube video and see it run far enough to test how hot the motor gets, I'll believe it. And even if Currie did it your way and made one larger voltage battery pack instead of two and having them switchable, you'd have one very heavy battery pack to lug around instead of two lighter ones if you remove it like I do when I recharge it. If they made one larger voltage battery pack, it probably wouldn't be mountable like the stock ones, which balance the weight out and it would have to be placed on top of the rack. Yes, I'd love to be able to afford some lightweight lithium batteries or even some Dewalt 36-volt packs, but it's not in my immediate future.