Ianhill
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Had a 500w charger fail thats never good news, but i didn't like the fact it had a green and red led that was it as to see what it was doing so i wanted something with a display and configurable for differing rides.
I searched about and came across the chargery used on cake bike and it was perfect for my freerider I could reduce my charge time from 2 hours to as little as 40 mins in theory, the current battery uses sony vtc3 cells its getting old now and I'm not going to stress it by fast charging and I've not inspected the bms to see it's max specs either but in time when the bike gets re'celled there's big room for improvement on the charge turn around so I bought it.
It's got all the settings I need and my initial thoughts after the first charge is it's really quiet compared to the stock air plane my bike came with and at double the price it's triple the power so I'm happy with that and this looks like it could be repaired not like my old stock charger potted the complete board to the case.
Only thing I will change is the charge lead I don't like how a lead comes out the front to a connector it should have just been panel mounted to save a possible cable failure at the grommet, so I plan to use panel mount Anderson powerpole connectors 45amp and make a double ended universal charge lead worked either way round as I got the same connectors on my bike, I've ordered the bits when it turns up I'll get a few more pics up of the guts with the front panel off and the mod.