Someone gave me one of these bikes that is brand new pretty much but it got banged around a bit in transport allegedly, it lights up but the motor is silent.
the front light and front battery power level leds come on, but the backlight stays off and so does the motor. the 30a fuse in the battery blows fairly fast. I am guessing the central controller is defunct.
the wiring is a very cheap and jumbled, outside of the controller there are about 30 different wires in spaghetti crammed in a box going to all the different sensors and leds..first thing I will do is photograph everything and compare everything with the good bike. there is a tiny little potentiometer fixed into the controller with a little yellow plastic screw on it, I reckon when you turn it it changes the maximum speed for the American market.
after will have to change the motor around which takes a lot of rewiring to check it on the good bike. don't even know if it's brushless but the axle is over 6 inches so it's a custom-built frame. if ever I have to put in a new controller it will probably just be the basics without the lights and leds and it will be hard to link the motor sensors which are a bunch of wires of different colours.
would love your thoughts
here are some pics, the controller looks a bit fried, it could just be factory grime.
Edit-I have just noticed a really bad design flaw, besides everything being too heavy and cheap, its absolutely not a rain bike any measure. there are mudguards, but if you look where the control box is placed under the pedals, there are finger sized holes at either end under the bars of the frame, so that rain draining from the frame is likely to go down along the wires and straight through the holes into electrics area, not a very clever design at all.
EDIT-it's worse than that! I missed one of the holes and it's possibly the most silly one- on top of the control box at the lowest point under the metal sliding groove, all the water from the back wheel and the battery collects in this area and there is a hole!
on the upside, I realised I didn't have to take the back wheel off to test the motor, simply connect the control box of one bike to the motor of the other, the motor is fine!
the front light and front battery power level leds come on, but the backlight stays off and so does the motor. the 30a fuse in the battery blows fairly fast. I am guessing the central controller is defunct.
the wiring is a very cheap and jumbled, outside of the controller there are about 30 different wires in spaghetti crammed in a box going to all the different sensors and leds..first thing I will do is photograph everything and compare everything with the good bike. there is a tiny little potentiometer fixed into the controller with a little yellow plastic screw on it, I reckon when you turn it it changes the maximum speed for the American market.
after will have to change the motor around which takes a lot of rewiring to check it on the good bike. don't even know if it's brushless but the axle is over 6 inches so it's a custom-built frame. if ever I have to put in a new controller it will probably just be the basics without the lights and leds and it will be hard to link the motor sensors which are a bunch of wires of different colours.
would love your thoughts
here are some pics, the controller looks a bit fried, it could just be factory grime.
Edit-I have just noticed a really bad design flaw, besides everything being too heavy and cheap, its absolutely not a rain bike any measure. there are mudguards, but if you look where the control box is placed under the pedals, there are finger sized holes at either end under the bars of the frame, so that rain draining from the frame is likely to go down along the wires and straight through the holes into electrics area, not a very clever design at all.
EDIT-it's worse than that! I missed one of the holes and it's possibly the most silly one- on top of the control box at the lowest point under the metal sliding groove, all the water from the back wheel and the battery collects in this area and there is a hole!
on the upside, I realised I didn't have to take the back wheel off to test the motor, simply connect the control box of one bike to the motor of the other, the motor is fine!
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