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Battery changed (way too hard, if there was going to be a next design of this bike, it would need to make it A) convenient to replace individual batteries and B) get rid of the metal cases and replace those with metal bands that can be bolted and tightened around the battery groups).  Had to hammer an old screw driver down on the split corner of the metal case to split it open further before I could get the  battery next door to the bloated stinky bad battery out of the case, and hence the bad battery.

Coming up the hill with about 10 miles ridden on the charge, keeping the bike at 45mph, the voltage never went below 69.  Doesn't prove anything, but certainly no obvious problems after losing the bad battery...

Today when I got home from a 26-mile run I whiffed that now-familiar half-toxic but paradoxically kind of sweet smell of a leaky battery.  Pulling out the cell logger, there was one battery at 2.85 volts while the other 23 were around 3.25.  So I have another battery that needs replacement.  I think it is (guity) 24 -- (cell-logger) 1, which is one of those that show up badly in the tests above.  (To verify I need to take off the gas tank and trace down the cell logger wire set of the bad battery to see what exact cell it belongs to (1,9,17?).

Lots of maintenance for this bike (supposedly there wasn't supposed to be that much maintenance), but I do have to say that a year after the initial purchase I'm still not seeing any companies coming out with bikes that have any kind of edge in range/speed.  (Though Brammo should break things wide open next July.)

Also, I guess my accident took a toll on the left fork because it seems to be slowly leaking oil (from the bottom of the fork) onto the front tiire and the floor of the garage...

Harlan, it's been a while since I checked the amps on the way up the hill, and I can't really remember.  I'll check and post when I ride it again this weekend...

Batteries 7 (cell  logger)/ 10 (guity and 8 (cell logger)/9 (guity):

The worst battery is in this pair:

If you take a look at the graphs, you can see that battery 20 (guity number) or 5 (cell logger number) takes a dive at every opportunity, much lower than every battery.  The biggest dive came while coming back up the hill today, but you can see there were other dives probably corresopnding with every time I accelerated hard from a stop.  You can also see that battery 24 (cell logger's 1) and 18 (cell logger's 7) sucked as well, though not as bad.  I guess it is a bit too early to jump to conclusions until I have logged the other 16 batteries as well...

But interestingly enough, you can also see that all the bad batteries, even the worst, comes back up even with the others when there isn't a heavy load.  Hence, by the time I got the bike stopped and checked the voltages, none of the batteries looked all that bad...

OK third pair of batteries, guity's 20 and 19, cell loggers 5 and 6...

OK this will require 4 posts, in each post an attachment of a Word document with 2 graphs in the document showing the same 52-minute span of logging that includes driving back up my hill at the end of a trip to work and back.  These graphs tell a fascinating tale as far as I am able to tell...