The more & more I dig into the Alta - reading between the lines I'm seeing a significant 'baseline' ie every bike behaves significantly different. From a standardized manufacturer seems odd to me....
Perhaps Steve jobs is hacking our firmware from the afterlife?
or mount one of these under your hood with belt/ pulley gearing to acheive the 3600rpm at idle....
10000 Max Starting/7200 Running Watts Generator Head
while it would be techno geek cool to adjust mapping to individual riding conditions or rider inputs but with regulations & such I dont see this ever happening from a budding manufactuer certaintly one that has their sights set as high as Alta's....
The more & more I think about it Simplicity rules a spare Alta battery is simply an intermediary and additional weight on the overall rig to the track I think we're just stuck with spending the big bucks on the nice quiet Honda generators. Got to kill those dinosaurs somehow?
Same Theory applies...
or what if Alta sold battery packs to refill the bikes battery then you could leave that noisy generator refilling the 'charging' station while your out roosting @Judaslefourbe ;)
don't forget your high idle vehicle will be 'sipping' the petro to recharge that battery bank all day not to mention the wear & tear on your mode of transportation to the track!
Zero didn't get a very good review from cycle news - they typically will just give the marketing reviews that require reading between the lines...
2018 Zero FX | FULL TEST - Cycle News
Owners Manual
reading the MoM with some observations
page 11
charging porocedure
Plug charger into source
Plug charger into bike
Key to ON
Run switch to ON
Key to OFF
Allowing charging cycle
Can you skip step 3 & just activate the run switch?
charging outdoors? Guess that eliminates living...
That's what I'm looking for is an adapter to a110v outlet. Am I going to have to become a sparky or is something commercially ie quality available. Hate to burn up a 800$ charger or worse a 13k motorcycle...
My electric diamondback bicycle has this feature. Not very accurate as there are lots of variables but useless nontheless to estimate how long you have until you have to pedal that 60lbs bicycle pig up a hill !!