Thursday 15 March 2012

Electric water pump

I've decided to cover the bike in vinyl rather than paint it, the seat went quite well, but the rest of it so far is quite rubbish.  Still it looks a tiny bit better than it would with naked fairings.

I've also decided to convert my bike to use an electric waterpump, it's hard to justify but I wanted an excuse to learn how to use microprocessors + remove the issue of overheating on a delayed grid/ after races.  This should hopefully be able to keep the temperature of my bike constant, no matter the rev's or the speed i'm going.... no need to mess about with tape on the radiator when its cold either.  I've written the software side, it dynamically calculates the pump speed according to how fast the temperature changes/has changed in the past.  Basically it learns as you ride how it needs to control the pump to maintain a constant temperature.

This is an unfinished prototype, it's unfinished because i've managed to blow up some of the components.