Bits for Blackhawk lowboy 2 quad wheeled powered paraglider by eddiema

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Some parts I made for my lowboy.
It is surprising how many downloads this project is getting.
The aren't many quads around so people must be using the parts for something else.
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are also for the quad.
I'm building a quad PPG wihich is powered by a verner JCV-360 engine -AKA hellcat-360
It is fuel injected.
The enigine is monitored by a PPG-meter. I'm mounted the meter on the front right riser tube, I'm working on combining this with a phone holder.
The battery charging etc is controlled by a device marked "Fly Henry".
There is also an engine control unit.
I've mounted these back to back on a vertical tube behind the seat.
There is a 24V ni-cad pack for starting the engine etc.
I've mounted this on the rear right main frame riser tube.
This is a vertical tube - the photo is showing up rotated ATM.
I wanted to run the 9mm plastic fuel line along a 20mm steel tube.
Simply clamping it with zip-ties crushes the fuel line.
I made a little clip which does the job without the crushing.
A zip-tie goes around the clip to hold it in place.
Later - made one for 26mm frame as well. I use this for radiator overflow and fuel tank breather lines.
I made a clamp to attach the fuel pump to a 26mm tube.
This works OK but could be improved by having a narrow bit at the bottom to prevent the pump sliding down.
I will do a new version if this is a real problem.
I'm moving the pump onto a 29mm horizonatal tube. For this I've made fuelpumpclamp-29. It is half the height and I'll use two of them.
The tbarbholder is for mounting a fuel line T-peice on a 20mm tube. The oval holes are to hold a pair of zip-ties in place.
XT60 - Oct 2014
The quad's existing battery is totally inadequate for cold starts.
It can't supply enough power to crank plus run the fuel pump etc.
So I've added a socket to plug in a SLA pack for starting. I'm only feeding in 24V not the 12V centre tap.
I used xt60 connectors because they are cheap and have a high current rating (about 85A).
The socket on the quad is glued into a holder which is zip tied to a 25mm tube. The other xt60 parts are for the battery, charging lead and blank plug to keep dust etc out of the used sockets.
I tried including a cheap DVM into the charging socket but it failed - maybe another time.
More info about my quad can be found here - http://eddiem.com/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Blackhawk+tandem+quad