up the mountain on the mercane

I decided to take the mercane all the way from the bottom of the range up to Queen Mary falls (again) and this time video the descent (last time the card filled up ... fcuk)

This is the basic plot of the altitude and speeds recorded by my GPS on my phone

So I climbed nearly 300 meters over more or less 4km, where the GPS shows that on the way up it just sat on about 22kmh no matter what, and then hooted back down under gravity peaking at 44kmh (it might have peaked higher if I didn't touch the brakes, but I've had enough bone breaks already). The GPS shows that the downhill had some steeper bits which showed up as speed peaks but the uphill barely registered because the motor is within its power to deliver.

When I got there I checked the motors and battery by hand it it was barely warm to the touch, so I didn't bother with the thermal camera. I believe this clarifies how well designed the system is from the engineering side.

I hope you enjoy my trip back down

I did ;-)