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Yesterday my suntour hesc hub which has been overvolted for a while inexplicably died. What's wierd is it worked fine until I unplugged the motor higo plug to show a family member who was wanting to do work on his bike. After this it just would not work, slight judder followed by error 3 hall...

Yeah they are fine at that setting only happens on max assist, like I said can be remedied by lowering the current. Tbh I only think they can do 20a in 36v mode 48v is just too much for a 6 fet at high current

I had 2 6 fet ones and they just suck. First one blew up from a standstill eventually, second still technically works but cuts if you run at full amps regardless of its temperature. The 9 fet was a pleasure while my motor worked, I found continuity in the hall wires so I'm scared the halls...

Yes and beware it's a dark path riddled with problems if you don't know what you're doing. I'm convinced I damaged the motor or something as I am plagued by faults. That said the original controller change was quite mild mannered and worked pretty well, the real problems started when I got a...

I spoke too soon, tested another controller and same problem. I either have a connection issue or something more sinister. Tomorrow I will find out

Change the controller, display and pedal sensor

AAAAAND My controllers blown already, I'm done with kt they are so unreliable

Thanks, we might just replace it as it's a 36v model running at 48v, the extra heat may have caused it as it runs pretty hot. It's pretty old anyway and spokes keep breaking, not ready for more headaches. The equivalent 48v 350w model is only £146 from AliExpress and should run a lot cooler. In...

My wife's hub motor is making a sort of rhythmic mechanical noise when it's running. No noise when the motor isn't used. Definitely coming from the hub, other than this it works normally. Bearings or something worse?

Was just after a hub by itself tbh. Besides just been testing, whoah the acceleration! Maintains its top speed better and the motor stayed cool under heavy load up a hill throttle only. I think I'll be fine with this hub for now

Ok, not sure what to get, the bafang geared hubs seem good, but I'd have to lace it myself. Direct drives are harder to find unless you want 1000w+ which would drain my battery a bit faster than I'd like

I have been able to muscle a hub in that way before and was thinking about that. Would you recommend a torque arm with this setup?

I'm upgrading to a 9 fet controller as my 6 get keeps overheating, it's 500w 25a. I think this may be a bit much for my geared hub although it is a larger one, I fancy an upgrade to a 500w hub with a bit more poke, but my dropouts are 160mm, all I can find are 135mm or 170mm (fatbike) hubs. Can...

That's all I need to hear, cheers

It's a crabtree starbreaker, no idea what kind it is. Reassuring to know that this is a normal phenomenon, as someone mentioned it is more like static as it's felt when brushing rather than holding. How would I go about earthing the bike frame?

We have a circuit breaker, saying that it could be the socket, I have the chargers on one of those double plugs, could that be the problem? The charger case is plastic, pretty sure I measured using the DC setting. The battery case is metal and does have direct contact with metal parts of the...

Have had it open and can't find any faults, guessing it's just a design flaw, strange

I've just plugged in my wife's bike to charge and got a small shock from her pannier rack, got the meter out and I'm getting up to 2v coming though the rack near the battery when charging!? The battery is a metal case, I'm guessing the charge leads have managed to ground to the case. Could this...

Could still be the spokes, try a drop of oil in each spoke nipple this has worked for me several times. Give them a good tug and check none are actually broken I had one that appeared fine until I moved it

Well I survived, starting to feel more confidence in them now. Broke hard due to traffic and didn't die so they must just be bad when new