Electric Bikes – spring is nearly here
I realised this morning that I have cycled to and from the shop everyday this week, so I will probably do more kms on the bike than in the car! It’s been a while since the weather allowed me to …
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The trials and highlights of building and using E-Bikes
Electric bikes – a milestone
Yes, just over a year after the first ride to the coffee cart at lunchtime on 6th June 2014, the odometre on the bike ticked over to 3000 kms, just as I got back from a lunchtime trip to the …
Electric Bikes – way of the future?
Over and over again I read statements from very enthusiastic e-bike riders, retailers, manufacturers and advocates that e-bikes are THE way of the future. This is absolute nonsense of course, they are A way of the future, but many other …
Electric Bikes – new panniers
The rejigged batteries and the new cells are behaving themselves, I occasionally manually balance the cells using a couple of neat wiring additions I have made. The first is a plug in tab that allows a 6 cell voltmeter to …
Electric bikes – ready for winter
Seems like only yesterday I was writing a similar post last year! A year on and the bike is getting closer to what we want it to be, must be time for a new one! 2500km in the last year, …
Electric bikes – pannier batteries
I used the panniers as battery containers with a little trepidation, there was a lot of design and work creating the set up, with no guarantee it was going to work. Now I have done my first couple of days …
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 …
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 …