At long last it appears Adaptto has helped me figure out the cause of my endless issues with the Mini-E.
For those who aren't aware, my Mini-E has been sent back to Russia and repaired (whole power board replaced) twice now. The symptoms were strange. Everything appears normal, but I got no amps or watts reading. I was able to ride the bike around, but the controller did not clamp power at all and acceleration was insane. Both times it blew, it was when I ran auto detect.
All this time I have been making the assumption that the main battery negative and positive XT150 connectors coming out of the controller would have opposite sex. I.e. if Positive is male, then negative should be female. That is how many batteries and controllers I have worked with are wired. Generally I believe it is so you cannot accidentally reverse polarity when plugging in even if you mix up the colors. I've never come across battery connectors where the same sex is used for both polarities. Is this common and am I just oblivious to normal here?
Anyway it turns out this logic doesn't apply to Adaptto. I must have missed it when reading the manual, and never considered that it would be the source of my problem until, after 2X warranty repairs and numerous video's showing function, Adaptto support finally asked if I was using the right ground wire for the battery.
I never previously connected that particular ground for 2 reasons:
The positive (red) wire has a Male XT150 end on it, so I assumed the corresponding ground (black) wire would be the Female XT150 end as this is how many other batteries and controllers I have worked with are wired.
Since the controller turned on and fully functioned apart from watts/amps sensing, I assumed the ground wire I was using was the correct one.
Anyway, hopefully this saves someone else the pain I've gone through, and I hope Adaptto might learn from this also...if they don't want to change the XT150 connector sex, then maybe they can use a different plug or color entirely for the charging wire...just a suggestion.
Regardless of all this, Adaptto support had been pretty great. Although slow to respond at times, they always did there best to help me out. The biggest pain to me was the time lost, and the money spent send it back to Russia twice. All up this Mini-E has cost me nearly $850 AUD, so I hope it is all I hoped it would be and better.
Cheers