Electric bikes – back again
It has been a long time between posts, and a long time between rides. The battery saga from Christmas just went on and on, faulty cells, faulty BMS, more faulty cells, it all got a bit dispiriting, and cells and …
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Electric Bikes, Chinese New Year, evassemble.com
The battery saga below is ongoing. The broken BMS in Lynn’s battery has now destroyed three cells. The new BMS has arrived and is fitted, but with only 11 good cells, it’s not much use! I am using the second …
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Electric Bikes – battery problem solved, but other problems rear their heads
The battery is charging again as I type, and all cells are charging at same rate, all rising nicely, so it looks like the problem was one bad cell, possibly two, but the first may have been making the second …
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Electric bikes – the battery saga
It’s still ongoing, but much less of an issue. Sorting out battery issues is a slow process when it’s the charging/discharging side of things you have an issue with. I replaced the faulty (possibly) cell with a new fully charged …
Electric bikes – battery issues again!
Two new cells have just arrived from BMSbattery, and the low voltage cell replaced. The defective cell was down to almost zero, so it looks like the cell may be beyond repair. The single cell battery charger is on its …
Electric Bikes – Battery Problems and other issues
After 1500kms, a few gremlins have crept into the batteries, in particular Lynn’s battery. It has cut out a few of times, once caused by a broken ring connector, the second time because a screw into the top of a …
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Electric bikes – performance!
I occasionally use Map My Ride to record new routes and sometimes old ones just to see how I am doing on the fitness side of things too. While reading a report of e-biking cycle trails in wales, I came …
Electric Bikes – Tour of Whitby
I/we have been wanting to do this since we started building the e-bikes. Basically the idea is to ride every street in Whitby in one go, and the purpose was to test the e-bikes range without getting too far from …
Electric bikes – riding in weather
The long weekend mentioned below turned out to be not so good for cycling – too many other things intefered! Spring has been very strange, we have had so much really horrendous wind lately, some of which has stopped us …
Electric Bikes – long weekend coming up!
It has been a strange week, it feels like I haven’t been on the bike much. On Monday, I had the car at the shop for the day, can’t remember why, but I did drop Andrew off at work in …