Thinking about this a bit longer: this is in a way a bit like saying 'you built a computer without knowing about hacker news?'. I don't particularly care about fora other than HN (and Twitter, but that's far more general than HN), I just like to tinker with stuff and that's a different thing every other week. I'm sure there is a piano forum, a lego forum, a forum for insomniacs and so on. But I'm not all that interested in those fora, I'll find my own way and when I get really stuck then I may go and see if there is something that can get me unstuck and if that's some forum somewhere I'll read it - likely without even noticing the domain - make some notes and move on again. I really don't need more sites that I have to visit regularly to keep up on some subject. I'm probably a-typical in that way but I have three or four sites that I use regularly and the rest is on an as-needed basis as the answer to a search query.
In any case they'll love it there! I'm more onto other energy storage forums, and it's sometimes a bit less active than I'd wish it was but you can get some very good insights from some of the users there. I've avoided quite a few headaches and lesser documented problems with energy management w.r.t liion batteries thanks to those forums.
You've been hacking and building an e-bike without knowing about the largest online forum for exactly that?
Thinking about this a bit longer: this is in a way a bit like saying 'you built a computer without knowing about hacker news?'. I don't particularly care about fora other than HN (and Twitter, but that's far more general than HN), I just like to tinker with stuff and that's a different thing every other week. I'm sure there is a piano forum, a lego forum, a forum for insomniacs and so on. But I'm not all that interested in those fora, I'll find my own way and when I get really stuck then I may go and see if there is something that can get me unstuck and if that's some forum somewhere I'll read it - likely without even noticing the domain - make some notes and move on again. I really don't need more sites that I have to visit regularly to keep up on some subject. I'm probably a-typical in that way but I have three or four sites that I use regularly and the rest is on an as-needed basis as the answer to a search query.
Apparently :)
In any case they'll love it there! I'm more onto other energy storage forums, and it's sometimes a bit less active than I'd wish it was but you can get some very good insights from some of the users there. I've avoided quite a few headaches and lesser documented problems with energy management w.r.t liion batteries thanks to those forums.
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