Do you have a spare mobility scooter sitting unused in your garage? Or, maybe you’ve got a grandmother who has been complaining about how long it takes her to get to bingo on Tuesdays? Has your local supermarket hired you to improve grocery shopping efficiency between 10am and 2pm? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then the guys over at Photon Induction have an “overclocked” mobility scooter build which should provide you with both inspiration and laughs.
They’ve taken the kind of inexpensive mobility scooter that can be found on Craigslist for a couple hundred dollars, and increased the battery output voltage to simultaneously improve performance and reduce safety. Their particular scooter normally runs on 24V, and all they had to do to drastically increase the driving speed was move that up to 60V (72V ended up burning up the motors).
Other than increasing the battery output voltage, only a couple of other small hacks were necessary to finish the build. Normally, the scooter uses a clutch to provide a gentle start. However, the clutch wasn’t up to the task of handling 60V, so the ignition switch was modified to fully engage the clutch before power is applied. The horn button was then used as the accelerator, which simply engages a solenoid with massive contacts that can handle 60V. The result is a scooter that is bound to terrify your grandmother, but which will get her to bingo in record time.
Love Photonic Induction. Nice to see the guys getting out of the house!
I agree the guy is always indoors but if I had half the toys he has I would be in all day blowing shit up too.
God bless Photonic Induction. Awesome guy, hilarious personality, good videos.
LOL, i’m going to have to show this to some of our customers (the ones with a good sense of humour). It will terrify some of the old folk but I bet there’ll be one or two that would quick fancy the idea of that speed!
One word from an old m/c racer: skid lids!
Here’s a thought…
… [photonicinduction] and [tesla]…. ….just hanging out in the lab one day…
If we’re shipping YouTube personalities, it should be [photonicinduction] and [AvE].
eh…?
…i was referring to [Nikola Tesla].
I like Colin Furze’s better but this was still fun to watch.
“….to simultaneously improve performance and reduce safety.”
Jajajaja
Anything [PhotonicInduction] puts his stamp on is bound to be hilarious and completely unsafe. As someone who relies on a mobility scooter to get around, I say that this waste of a perfectly good scooter is totally and completely…
Awesome!!!
which simple engages a solenoid with massive contacts that can handle 60V. Did you mean simply?
They really need a current limited PWM controller to give max acceleration with control.
Just a thumping big switch is pretty poor. A PWM controller is really easy to make nowadays with an Arduino and big FETs.
The one I originally did about 10+ years ago had a couple of 555 timers in it.
Having the motor current feedback to reduce the PWM to safe levels will let you have a smooth speed increase and will extend the battery life, not to mention that of the motor!
But wheelies!
And fire
I’ve often thought PhotonicInduction was underrepresented here.
See more of the guys highly entertaining work here https://youtu.be/Oyl8F23uXHc
Reminds me of my upgrade to a granny scooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5SEWjYTJ0
Machined larger wheels and replaced Pb with LIPO and overvolted it to get it up to 10 mph.
It needs a better wheeley bar than the stock one.
You should take a look at the worlds fastest mobility scooter..
https://youtu.be/waeZyjal2ls
Not sure if he still holds that title..
if it does hold the record then these guys need to cram some of there tech into a mobility scooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0TNk5gLbU
I have a golden companion 24 volt goes 4 mph… I need a controller replacement that will allow me to go up to 10 mph or a bit more, so that I can keep up with a bicycle. Can you guys help me
Try adding an extra battery in series
Looking for a bolt on replacement motor for my GoGo three wheel scooter. I have added an extra set of batteries in parallel with the original 12 amp ones, and the improvement in torque is fantastic, but i gained very little extra speed. I’d like to increase the voltage to 48 volts with a controller capable of handling it, and a higher revving motor. Also can you recommend a wheel hub adapter so i can put larger diameter tires. It’s a 17mm keyed shaft.
Gustavo, will doing that void your GoGo warranty? Sounds like a good idea, I would just be hesitant about Pride’s warranty on their mobility scooters.
The warranty is long gone, plus i have two other GoGo broken scooters I use for spare parts.😁