Empty battery/Low battery indication

[ki11a]

I thought this was worth noting that the Lectric XP does not have an 'empty' bar icon or 'dead' battery indication, even though there is 1 bar left on the idicator and you may be getting 42 volts it will not show an that you are actually on a dead battery.

It will always show 1 bar left on the battery indicator. Just ran outta juice trying out a new trail and thought something was wrong with the bike on the last leg when it was still showing 1 bar left/alittle more than 42 volts, the throttle started not giving it enough juice then completely died.

Charged her back up a little and everything is back to normal...all in all went around 24/25 miles; not bad at all.

 

[Taylor57]

You may want to keep a monitor on the voltage. Check out this thread. You will never look at the battery indicator again!

Lectric XP Battery Bar Interpretation?

I have 220 miles now over 30 days. Most of my usage is commuting around town, 8-10 miles per day. I have been charging every night. I took a longer ride yesterday ~ 15 miles at PAS 3-4 with hills and another 5 miles today without charging. Battery bar while riding dropped to 3 bars but...

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[Solarman]

The energy bars display IS a voltmeter of sorts - just with very poor resolution and limited range. Most of the lower bars are 0.5v increments (1 bar = 40.0v, 2 bars = 40.5v, etc.) with the highest few bars being 1v increments and 48.0v for the highest.

This means from 48v to a fully-charged battery the energy bars will tell you nothing. Use the voltage display if you want to see actual instantaneous voltage while riding. Which also isn't particularly useful, as the voltage fluctuates with load, and recovers somewhat when the load is reduced.

What would be useful is a watt-hour meter like we use in the RC hobby - they monitor voltage AND current and compute actual power over time. Since the XP uses a 10.5 amp-hour battery, a watt-hour meter could show directly how much "juice" is left in your battery.

 

[Ironcopelev]

The energy bars display IS a voltmeter of sorts - just with very poor resolution and limited range. Most of the lower bars are 0.5v increments (1 bar = 40.0v, 2 bars = 40.5v, etc.) with the highest few bars being 1v increments and 48.0v for the highest.

This means from 48v to a fully-charged battery the energy bars will tell you nothing. Use the voltage display if you want to see actual instantaneous voltage while riding. Which also isn't particularly useful, as the voltage fluctuates with load, and recovers somewhat when the load is reduced.

What would be useful is a watt-hour meter like we use in the RC hobby - they monitor voltage AND current and compute actual power over time. Since the XP uses a 10.5 amp-hour battery, a watt-hour meter could show directly how much "juice" is left in your battery.

where in settings is voltage display if its 3 it always stays on 48v if its setting 15 it never changes from 40 does this mean my bike lcd is not working properly?