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I'm glad it's all up and running now. It seems to be nicely matched to your bike.
The PAS setting is "speed control", not "power control", so your assumption of 50w is not correct. You'll still get high power when you slow right down. The amount of power you get depends on the difference of your actual speed compared with the maximum speed that the PAS level is set to. As an example, when going up a hill at 8mph, you speed difference on PAS 1 is 4.5 mph, on PAS 5, it would be about 18mph, so on PAS 5, the controller will be trying harder to equalise the speeds by providing more power, but the actual algorithms are complicated, and is muddied by other effects -like back EMF, which cuts down current as speed goes up. Throttle control works the same.
It seems that your PAS1 setting is about 12.5 mph and the controller doesn't have a sudden cut-off for PAS speed control. The old King Meter type was the same, but the maximum speed cut-off was different because it worked from the speed sensor in the wheel, while as the PAS level speed control works from the hall signals, so on PAS 5, your controller will try and accelerate up to the motor's top speed (24mph on old Oxydrive), but the control panel with it's own speed sensor will cut the power as soon as it senses that its maximum speed has been reached. This is where you get the sudden cut-off on the old system. You should try yours on PAS 5 to see if it's the same.
The PAS setting is "speed control", not "power control", so your assumption of 50w is not correct. You'll still get high power when you slow right down. The amount of power you get depends on the difference of your actual speed compared with the maximum speed that the PAS level is set to. As an example, when going up a hill at 8mph, you speed difference on PAS 1 is 4.5 mph, on PAS 5, it would be about 18mph, so on PAS 5, the controller will be trying harder to equalise the speeds by providing more power, but the actual algorithms are complicated, and is muddied by other effects -like back EMF, which cuts down current as speed goes up. Throttle control works the same.
It seems that your PAS1 setting is about 12.5 mph and the controller doesn't have a sudden cut-off for PAS speed control. The old King Meter type was the same, but the maximum speed cut-off was different because it worked from the speed sensor in the wheel, while as the PAS level speed control works from the hall signals, so on PAS 5, your controller will try and accelerate up to the motor's top speed (24mph on old Oxydrive), but the control panel with it's own speed sensor will cut the power as soon as it senses that its maximum speed has been reached. This is where you get the sudden cut-off on the old system. You should try yours on PAS 5 to see if it's the same.
