Building an electric racing car

Step 3 The brakes

Although during a race the brakes are rarely used - the motor provides a lot of drag if you turn it off, they are necessary sometimes. We borrowed a bike disk brake set but found it very difficult to set up and easy to get out of alignment so will look to revert to a more simple system using a normal bike caliper brake over the winter closed season.

The brake levers are on the steering arms and operate the rear wheel brakes independently - this isn't a problem even at speed.

Comments

[qdogg]

To those wondering about how to get 24V out of 2 batteries: EASY-- connect them in series. Plus on one to minus on the other, then the remaining 2 cables go to the motor. How do you think a 3 volt flashlight works using only 1.5 V batteries? The same way.