Hi all, new member but long time user of the forum.
My Wisper 905 has been working well since I bought it, used, off eBay but yesterday it failed.
I had ridden my usual route to the shop for the paper and when I got back on and started back home there was a noise from the motor, a sort of buzzing vibration sound and the bike seemed low on power. I carried on with this noise for about half a mile which was mostly down hill so I'm not sure how much power I was getting. When I got to the gate I switched off and then back on to see if that would do anything but on switching back on there was no power at all and no noise either. All lights on, battery well charged up, no power either on pedals or hand throttle.
After breakfast I had a look and decided that since the noise had come from the motor it must be a problem down there. I switched back on and lifted the rear wheel, tried hand throttle, no sound, no movement, dead.
I'd never even taken the back wheel off so I had a poke around to see what needed to be done if the worse came to it and I had to replace the motor. I got as far as starting to lever off the nut protector where the wire feeds in then thought, "I don't know enough about this, I'd better get some advice." So I pushed the rubber cover back on and was going to leave it but turned on the power again, "Just in case" and low and behold everything worked. Rode 3 miles to pub and back no probs, all OK, again this morning all OK.
Is there a problem looming with the power contacts in the hub? If you've got this far thanks for reading, sorry to be long winded!
My Wisper 905 has been working well since I bought it, used, off eBay but yesterday it failed.
I had ridden my usual route to the shop for the paper and when I got back on and started back home there was a noise from the motor, a sort of buzzing vibration sound and the bike seemed low on power. I carried on with this noise for about half a mile which was mostly down hill so I'm not sure how much power I was getting. When I got to the gate I switched off and then back on to see if that would do anything but on switching back on there was no power at all and no noise either. All lights on, battery well charged up, no power either on pedals or hand throttle.
After breakfast I had a look and decided that since the noise had come from the motor it must be a problem down there. I switched back on and lifted the rear wheel, tried hand throttle, no sound, no movement, dead.
I'd never even taken the back wheel off so I had a poke around to see what needed to be done if the worse came to it and I had to replace the motor. I got as far as starting to lever off the nut protector where the wire feeds in then thought, "I don't know enough about this, I'd better get some advice." So I pushed the rubber cover back on and was going to leave it but turned on the power again, "Just in case" and low and behold everything worked. Rode 3 miles to pub and back no probs, all OK, again this morning all OK.
Is there a problem looming with the power contacts in the hub? If you've got this far thanks for reading, sorry to be long winded!
