I used my spare battery yesterday down to about 30% then charged it to 100%. It sat for 12 hours and voltage had reduced to 53.8 on meter. I just topped it up to 100% and will do my regular route once or twice and recheck.
I'm using a meter for voltage and the bike display for % full. I will take the batteries down to 20% to see voltage there. I've only once ridden to shutoff and did not meter test then.
To compare with the spare battery, which is almost unused, the meter says 50.3 volts for the spare when at 50% on the bike display. Travel was 14.5 miles.
So the 2 batteries are close at that point. The particular low output the LG M36 batteries do attain a high number of recharges in their...
Thank you! The heading on that setting on my bike display says "BV" and the number is 52. Your guess seems to be correct. I have no idea about the controller, never even seen it, it's in the downtube.
From the instruction manual, there is nothing about a voltage display, only the 5 bar graph. But now that you mention it, I think I found a voltage reading or setting they didn't tell us about. The manual says the other settings are presets only. That setting says "52". It does not change with...
Reading 48% on bike screen meter says 50.2 volts, 16.5 miles
Later on, reading 34% meter says 49.1 volts 20.5 miles.
On the last trip I rode harder and used the throttle more. Weather and wind conditions the same as the previous trip.
I rode 2.2 mi, with one small hill involved, as usual. Temperature is 43F. Wind 4mph. Now reading 88% on the bike screen, and that will probably rebound to 89%. Showing 53.2 V on the meter.
Rebounded to 89% still showing 53.2V on meter
I'll report the V when bike screen is reading 50%, then 20%...
I just finished charging the battery I use every day. The charger shut off at 99% on my bike screen and I left it plugged in for another hour and it then showed 100%. This battery had the charger charging light turn off at 98% on the bike screen once last week.
The battery is now showing 100%...
Thank you, DaLanMan.
Only one of them was in use, the other was used only once or twice mostly just well stored. So one of them was used almost every day, the other basically unused.
That difference makes me think it's not the battery(s).