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| This was an electric protobike for the WA Department of Agriculture and Food. They monitor their crops for photosynthetic rate and other parameters using quite heavy machinery and batteries. The poor workers used to have to carry things and walk up and down the rows all day. Now they’ll be doing it on some specialised converted electric bicycles. We were testing this one here with a 500W front motor; it worked well on most fields but bogged down when it got really sandy. Impressively, the 200W geared mini-motor with a 500W controller was a bit better but still struggled in the really soft stuff. The end product will be 200W mini-motor on front and 500W motor on rear. All the monitoring gear will be mounted in the middle of the contraption. Will make taking measurements of their wheat and barley trial crops a lot easier. |
