neithermovingnorstill
100 mW
Hi,
I'm a bit stumped. I'm trying to restore a used tadpole style e-trike (bought with no battery) and I need to install a different throttle (I wanted to put a thumb throttle on it to make it easier to activate on the upright handlebar, and accidentally broke the old one while removing it, so there's no going back). I'm having difficulty getting the new throttle to work, and wondering if I need a different one.
The new throttle doesn't have the same size plug, but it is 3 pin. So I cut them both and tried wiring the new throttle to the old throttle's plug, so it could plug into the trike, but when I tested it, it won't make the motor go. The old throttle did, so the motor/controller/battery are fine. (I charged the battery to full before testing).
I matched the colors based on the throttle manufacturers chart, and twisted them together and wrapped in electrical tape.
(It's a wilderness energy with red/yellow/green, their charts says yellow=black and green= white, and the old throttle cable was red/black/pale burgundy, so I matched red->red, yellow->black, and green->pal burgundy.
I'm wondering if the problem could be that the new throttle has much thinner wires than the old one, so I'm wiring thin wires to thick ones? Or if this isn't really a wilderness energy, (bought on ebay) so maybe the colors aren't matched up that way?
Or if it could be something else?
I'm scared to just connect them randomly in case I destroy the controller (which is internal to the motor casing, so I'd have to scrap the whole motor kit if the controller was destroyed).
I'm open to getting a new throttle (as long as it's tadpole trike/upright handlebar compatible), but I don't know of any that would connect better, with reliable red/black coordination.
Thanks for reading.
I'm a bit stumped. I'm trying to restore a used tadpole style e-trike (bought with no battery) and I need to install a different throttle (I wanted to put a thumb throttle on it to make it easier to activate on the upright handlebar, and accidentally broke the old one while removing it, so there's no going back). I'm having difficulty getting the new throttle to work, and wondering if I need a different one.
The new throttle doesn't have the same size plug, but it is 3 pin. So I cut them both and tried wiring the new throttle to the old throttle's plug, so it could plug into the trike, but when I tested it, it won't make the motor go. The old throttle did, so the motor/controller/battery are fine. (I charged the battery to full before testing).
I matched the colors based on the throttle manufacturers chart, and twisted them together and wrapped in electrical tape.
(It's a wilderness energy with red/yellow/green, their charts says yellow=black and green= white, and the old throttle cable was red/black/pale burgundy, so I matched red->red, yellow->black, and green->pal burgundy.
I'm wondering if the problem could be that the new throttle has much thinner wires than the old one, so I'm wiring thin wires to thick ones? Or if this isn't really a wilderness energy, (bought on ebay) so maybe the colors aren't matched up that way?
Or if it could be something else?
I'm scared to just connect them randomly in case I destroy the controller (which is internal to the motor casing, so I'd have to scrap the whole motor kit if the controller was destroyed).
I'm open to getting a new throttle (as long as it's tadpole trike/upright handlebar compatible), but I don't know of any that would connect better, with reliable red/black coordination.
Thanks for reading.