speedyebikenoob
1 kW
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- Feb 6, 2019
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Today I was pushing my bike really hard and eventually I stopped and sat down next to the bike to get some water. I realized while I was sitting next to it that I could literally feel the heat radiating off of the motor. Being the curious and impulsive idiot I am, I touched it with my bare hands, and it was very very hot, I'm sure I could have cooked something on it and would have burned my hand if I kept it there any longer. Is this normal? The motor is a mini cyclone with the stock controller, (slightly smaller version of the cyclone 3000) and I'm running 2400 watts through it. When I first began riding this bike about 200 miles ago I was keeping my rpms way too low even on hills, (which I now known is a big no-no especially with this motor) and I noticed that the system would shut itself off if it got extremely hot. I'm pretty sure it still does this but I haven't reached that threshold for a while. Do you guys think this is a good enough protection system? I'm not entirely sure how it works, I don't know whether there is actually a temperature sensor in the motor or whether it's just sensing the temperature of the controller, but I definitely don't want to melt my motor. What do you guys think?