Electric engine scooters can be as mild as the meager, collapsible toy scooters, or they can be abundant street versions commensurate electric cars. Whether you're looking for something that you can fair-minded impel enclosing the neighbourhood on, you can equip your toy scooter with an electric engine that Testament let you guide along without all that kicking.
Instructions
1. Purchase a kick-powered scooter. Any little, two-wheeled representation can employment, thanks to the speeds you Testament commutation at won't be also hastily. Provided you hunger a mini additional safety, treasure a scooter that has two wheels in the back or uses inflatable wheels (they utilize Rugged roads more suitable).
2. Asset a diminutive, battery-powered DC electric engine. The engine needs Sufficiently torque to constitute the scooter moxie, so at least Fifty volts of force is needed. It should committal at least four 12-volt lead-acid batteries. An electronics or surplus shop should hold an engine that can effort.
3. Place the crankshaft on the engine--it should be a metal rod sticking out that turns when the engine runs--and bolt a sprocket onto it. A 10- to 25-tooth sprocket should do. Attach another sprocket onto the axle of the scooter's rear wheel.
4. Place the engine on the scooter's riding platform, making sure both sprockets are on the same side. Attach the engine to the rear wheel by wrapping a bicycle chain or equivalent around the sprockets you attached. The chain may need to be shortened with an extractor tool to make it fit on the sprockets. You may also need to remove or alter the housing above the rear wheel so the chain will freely rotate across the sprockets without rubbing against anything.
Find a way to secure the engine onto the platform. Velcro straps can work if you find some long enough and glue them to the engine housing and platform underside. You can bolt the engine to the platform if you drill a hole in the housing somewhere that won't damage the engine.5.
6. Connect the engine to a switch that will turn it on and off. Plug the engine into a power controller, then wire the controller to a lever switch. Route the wiring all the way up to the scooter's handlebars and attach the switch on account of area so you can easily turn the engine on and off.
