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  1. J

    My Kona Stinky build

    You're right, that's it
  2. J

    My Kona Stinky build

    You mean on this new bike? It's dark at the minute but I'll try in the morning. It's a generic torque arm and only on the one side - I could attach it to the brake mount, but on the other side there's nothing to mount anything to. Luckily we have just had an engineering firm move into the unit...
  3. J

    My Kona Stinky build

    Yeah it was the clone. I cant even find the frame after a quick search on google now either. Main reason I went for it was because it was cheap. But after 6 months it started rusting in parts and after the crash it retired to the shed.
  4. J

    My Kona Stinky build

    Hi over the years I've owned a couple of ebikes - I worked 25 miles away from home so started with a BBS02 Cube hardtail, the drive failed so built another one and that went too. So I decided to scrap the kid drive idea and bought a cheap DD hub and fitted that..then bought a EEB clone frame and...
  5. J

    8kw Enduro Frame Build

    I have this frame - or at least one that looks exactly like it, it's not an EEB one or EM3EV one, but is holding up pretty well (survived a few knocks!). It is steel construction, I bought off a guy advertising on here and paid $350 shipped which I think is a bargain...
  6. J

    Suggestions for motor to fix up my bike

    Last month I got knocked off my bike by an old man that wasn't looking where he was going. My bike came down with a crash and wrecked the motor. I would like to fix the bike up because I enjoyed riding it, although have relocated so don't need it to do the 25 miles that it used to to get me to...
  7. J

    What could be wrong with my bike?

    I'm having this problem at the moment too. I had the same issue a while back too - back then it was a water ingress issue and the hall wires were shorting against each other. This time though it's intermittent and was not easily identified - and as someone said in a previous post is down to a...
  8. J

    Bike light technical question

    With the nights getting darker I've noticed that my cheap front light just isn't cutting it. I've seen some much better options on Amazon and Ebay but they come with their own (seperate) battery packs. An example is one that is 7.4V 8000mah. Call me lazy but I'd like a solution whereby I can...
  9. J

    Why would battery connector melt?

    Turns out it wasn't the solder joint after all - that part was relatively clean. The actual male bullet connector was rattling around inside the female part - it wasn't a good connection at all. There were broken bits of metal in there and everything. It doesn't surprise me it failed. It's...
  10. J

    Why would battery connector melt?

    I understand direct connection from a performance and reliability point of view, but wouldn't this create a nightmare regarding maintenance? I might give that a go... I don't fancy breaking down half way home... 13 miles with only one gear and a 40kg bike doesn't sound too good. I might hard...
  11. J

    Why would battery connector melt?

    My new build has been running smoothly for about 3 months now, but on the way into work today the bike intermittently lost power, the voltage indicator showing a temporary (2 second) drop in voltage. I made it into work and had a quick look around the bike and it appears the problem is from a...
  12. J

    Charger causing tingling sensation through bike frame

    Now that you mention it, the voltmeter that I have came with a large shunt that I've placed quite close to the controller and could be 'grounding' against the frame. Is this the sort of thing that can cause this problem?
  13. J

    Charger causing tingling sensation through bike frame

    I'm 95% through a new project of mine - my battery is an 18S 24Ah Lipo pack and I've just wired a new connector to a brand new 75V Li Ion charger. Plugged the charger in and it's charging the bike fine and dandy. I go to put my bike lights on while the bike is charging and I can feel a weird...
  14. J

    Replacing my Lipo setup

    370 cycles is one years worth of riding for me haha! A 14s 32ah multistar pack will cost me £400 at a minimum, I don't know if I can justify replacing the pack every year :(
  15. J

    Replacing my Lipo setup

    Hi all, My setup consists 14S2P Multistar Lipo 16ah giving me 51.8V 32AH nominal. My controller's maximum current is 40A and at this level there's normally a voltage sag of around 3V. Today I noticed while going up a long hill that the voltage sag was much worse than usual and that the cells...
  16. J

    Torrential weather caused weird problem

    Yes there's a slight cut in the loom that goes into the motor, which has exposed a bare wire very close to the axle. Look a nightmare to repair!
  17. J

    Torrential weather caused weird problem

    Just had a look before it got dark outside. This bit has broken for a start
  18. J

    Torrential weather caused weird problem

    Yeah makes sense, I rely on the bike a lot and will have to read more into the torque plates to prevent this kind of thing happening in the future. I thought that the weather might have done something weird with the electronics, like shorted one or two of the wires causing the wheel to lockup...
  19. J

    Torrential weather caused weird problem

    Why is it that I always get problems with the bike when the weather is at it's worst?! I thought I did a good job of weatherproofing the bike but maybe that's not the case. Today we had around one month's worth of rain in 12 hours, and I think (but am not sure) it may have something to do with...
  20. J

    Confused about thru axles

    I can see lots of options for fitting plates to this bike on the brake disc side (using the brake mounting screws), but how would you mount them on the non-brake side, where there are no mounting points? Thanks
  21. J

    Confused about thru axles

    These are the dropouts -
  22. J

    Confused about thru axles

    Hi all, I have a question about thru axles - I'm on the lookout for a full suspension frame and it seems most that I'm finding feature thru axles on the front forks and rears. Now from my research, most of the frames I've come across simply have a hole in the rear of the frame, which I'm...
  23. J

    Parallel Charging Lipo question

    Jim, looking at that video he doesn't actually say whether the three individual cells from each of the three packs are balanced already. If they were already well balanced, and the three packs are connected using his parallel charging harness then each pack would equalise using the discharge...
  24. J

    Parallel Charging Lipo question

    It was an orange bike. Very well put together. Will have to search to see if it was Tench. And yes it was a custom harness that simply needed one plug to charge and then to discharge simply unplug the harness and in its place goes a wiring harness to reconfigure the parallel strings to series...
  25. J

    Parallel Charging Lipo question

    Hi I found a thread on here a while back where someone built a 18S2P pack consisting three 6S bricks of Lipo twice. They built a harness so that they could charge all bricks in one go by altering so that the pack broke down into 6S6P (I think). My question is, I am thinking about building a...
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