Kickr Technical Details

Battery Charger alternatives:
Due to the Li-ion cells being connected directly to the barrel connection, provided you get the correct barrel plug, something like this should work perfectly!

www.ebay.com/itm/Battery-Charger-16-8V-1-5A-Auto-Stop-Smart-for-14-4V-14-8V-Li-ion-LiPo-Cell-UST-/320879812119

I have one on order, going to test.

Charging time will vary though.

If this is a 4s5p pack and the battery label is to be trusted (1000mah) then the stock 5a charger should fully charge a dead pack to 100% in about an hour or so.
This has been somewhat consistent with my findings.

As this ebay link is only a 1.5A charger, it should take about 3 hours and 20 minutes or so to do the same. This is much longer but I need a second charger since I would like to use my board at home and at work without having to continuously move the charger around.


Idle thoughts:
20mph top speed. 2 hour charge time. 1100w motor. 6 mile range. 30% of an hour it can run for which is 18 minutes
If it can run for 18 minutes at full tilt then with a 1100w motor, it has 330wh of power
That seems kind of ridiculous... so... Lets say it runs at 50% power to achieve 20mph.

That gives us a estimated energy capacity of 160wh, which is still too high for a 2 hour charge time
Actually... it kind of gets us right there...

The reason it has 1100w of power? To go up hills, take off from stand still? Definitely not when you're at speed...