Hectors Ghost
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I never bought a production ebike never seen one I want to own. So you do repairs yourself to large lithium packs, huh? Build your own BMS? What ebike(s) do you own and ride?
That's a lot of bikes for one butt. Must cut into a guy's riding time.... I have a Trek Pure, 2 KHS Smoothies, 1 scratch built from bare frame, A KHS step through, 1 Kick scooter, and a rear DD Bikes Direct fat bike. There's a WATTWAGON fatbike sitting in a shipping crate waiting for me to do a review.
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Thank you so much for sharing your experience!I have since received the rebuilt batteries and they are a 100% improvement over the original batteries. They are better than new!
Thanks for the very good info, however way over my knowledge of testing, batteries are two years old and we ride a lot in spring through summer and fall. I have noticed quite a difference when I pull the cart with the puppy .To measure capacity, you can buy a wattmeter, around $10-16 depending where you buy them,. Put on connectors that match your charger. Then when your battery is flat, recharge it and see how many AH or WH it took,
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The wattmeter can also be put between the battery and ebike controller, if you put in connectors. Then you can see how much WH/AH was used on a ride. However, they lose all the readings if you run the battery flat so you can't measure full discharge unless you use a second battery to power the meter.
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In theory, the recharge is 5-10% higher than discharge, I still find it useful to measure a ride, if I don't run down the battery, They record peak amps for example and minimum voltage, which is good info on what your bikes uses, and voltage sag on a battery,
There's other ways to test discharge. I bought an Atorch load tester which allows one to choose the current and how low to run the battery. It's limited to 160 watts, so a 48V battery can't be discharged higher than 3 amps, Thesea are aboyt $40 from China and 2x higher on amazon. The glowing disk is a cooling fab, festooned with LED's. This is more accurate than the above, but the tool is pretty fragile.
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