stever1957

I imagine that these exposed wires at the motor now require some form of waterproof protection?

Actually, Woosh wrote: "You could use WAGO blocks as a temporary solution"

I imagine I'll have to make the joint waterproof somehow?

I see, thank you too

I see, thank you.

Well, while I'm waiting for my Wago connectors to arrive, I decided to connect them up. temporarily, with those white, nylon ones that you screw closed. I decided to try connecting just the three thick wires, and lo-and-behold, it works great! Thanks Nealh.

We are talking about the connectors at the motor? I ask this because, when I connected them all up earlier, I found I was getting that 'juddering' again, until I noticed that the white wire had become disconnected. When I also connected the white wire, all was good.

Oh, many thanks.

Well, I connected all of the wires temporarily, by just twisting them together. The motor is fine and I rode the bike around the block. I just need to find a way of connecting all of these wires permanently, but so that they can be disconnected if required.

There is a delicious logic to your solution which, I fear, I might not have arrived at before I became mummified. I've cut off the connectors, stripped the wires and will get some heat-shrink before continuing. The wires are: red, blue, green, black, white and yellow. I imagine they must all be connected?

Okay. The smoke wasn't coming from the motor, it seems. The connector from the controller side is melted, with a pin from one connector now stuck in the hole of the other.

Thanks for that. I'll go and check that in the next half hour.

Hello again. I suppose when the motor starts to behave in a juddery fashion, then smoke comes out of it and then it stops working, but tries to, that means it's done for?

Wheel arrived, installed, dropouts not a problem. Lovely. Good old Woosh.