Yes, we had total internet failure for a few days. We have a strange system here that is dependent on a few dishes sending signals over a few small 'hills'. One of them couldn't cope with the weather and broke. Quite nice to have no internet for a few days - remember how peaceful life used to be. Cheers, Paul
@@verynearlyaboutsailing8114 No worries, always happy when you post. I recently rediscovered off line music. No distractions like listening to music on RUclips. Highly recommend.
That factory wiring looked a hot mess. Often bad wiring connections only show symptoms when a good load is applied to the equipment and the wires begin to heat cycle. Testing on a bike stand is a good start but a hard test drive with some hills and some distances is the best test.
Yes, the wiring is a complete mess - everything just shoved into the frame. When I first put it up on the bench and it 'seemed' to work, I wasn't convinced because there wasn't any load. I have taken it on a few longish rides and it's going well. However, it went well for the first few years that I had it. So, maybe things just gradually worked loose. It is a good bike, but not a great one. But no reason to get rid of it - yet. Too many people simply throw things away when they stop working. Even when the bike does finally conk out completely, I will probably convert it to a non-electric bike and try and keep it going that way. Cheers, Paul
You've got the right attitude. I have picked up very cheaply or free out of the junk a lot of seemingly broken things that other people have given up on and subsequently fixed or at least comverted to something useful without spending much money. Often, the failure of these electronic boards and controllers is the result of loose wiring elsewhere in the circuit that stresses the controller and eventually fries them. If you have trouble in the future check all the wiring again straight away and get that sorted before it can do any damage to the hardware. Often it takes a lot of research to fix this stuff because of the lack of documentation and standardization with these pieces of Chinesium tech and mech as you have just.experienced. It seems that these electric bike and kit producers are all doing their own thing right now and just shipping the product without documentation or decent build quality of the wiring interconnections. Fixing this stuff requires a fair amount of engineering skills to reverse engineer it just to figure out how it works to find the fault. Maybe in the future things will become more standardized and by the time your bike fails again you can rebuild it more easily and cheaply with a new controller that has decent documentation and instructions to wire it in with your existing bike motor/battery/sensors.
Indeed, no one in my family dares throw anything away without checking if I can salvage it first. If I win the lottery I will buy a scrapyard and be happy for life ;)
No, it's not just you. I was taught to always put it on it's side during school woodwork lessons. Then I watched a few Paul Sellars videos. He discussed the issue on one of his livestreams. I can't remember all the reasoning, but he put forward a good case for placing it on it's sole plate. So, I decided to go the Paul Sellars route. The difference in practice? Almost nothing, except it is marginally easier to just pick up the plane rather than flip it by 90 degrees each time you use it. Plus, it's a nice feeling to do something 'naughty' and not get shouted at by your scary Scottish woodwork teacher. - I am such a rebel ;) Cheers, Paul
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Very nearly February :-)
Yes, we had total internet failure for a few days. We have a strange system here that is dependent on a few dishes sending signals over a few small 'hills'. One of them couldn't cope with the weather and broke.
Quite nice to have no internet for a few days - remember how peaceful life used to be.
Cheers, Paul
@@verynearlyaboutsailing8114 No worries, always happy when you post. I recently rediscovered off line music. No distractions like listening to music on RUclips. Highly recommend.
That factory wiring looked a hot mess. Often bad wiring connections only show symptoms when a good load is applied to the equipment and the wires begin to heat cycle. Testing on a bike stand is a good start but a hard test drive with some hills and some distances is the best test.
Yes, the wiring is a complete mess - everything just shoved into the frame. When I first put it up on the bench and it 'seemed' to work, I wasn't convinced because there wasn't any load. I have taken it on a few longish rides and it's going well. However, it went well for the first few years that I had it. So, maybe things just gradually worked loose.
It is a good bike, but not a great one. But no reason to get rid of it - yet. Too many people simply throw things away when they stop working. Even when the bike does finally conk out completely, I will probably convert it to a non-electric bike and try and keep it going that way.
Cheers, Paul
You've got the right attitude. I have picked up very cheaply or free out of the junk a lot of seemingly broken things that other people have given up on and subsequently fixed or at least comverted to something useful without spending much money.
Often, the failure of these electronic boards and controllers is the result of loose wiring elsewhere in the circuit that stresses the controller and eventually fries them. If you have trouble in the future check all the wiring again straight away and get that sorted before it can do any damage to the hardware.
Often it takes a lot of research to fix this stuff because of the lack of documentation and standardization with these pieces of Chinesium tech and mech as you have just.experienced. It seems that these electric bike and kit producers are all doing their own thing right now and just shipping the product without documentation or decent build quality of the wiring interconnections. Fixing this stuff requires a fair amount of engineering skills to reverse engineer it just to figure out how it works to find the fault.
Maybe in the future things will become more standardized and by the time your bike fails again you can rebuild it more easily and cheaply with a new controller that has decent documentation and instructions to wire it in with your existing bike motor/battery/sensors.
Indeed, no one in my family dares throw anything away without checking if I can salvage it first.
If I win the lottery I will buy a scrapyard and be happy for life ;)
Maybe it just me but I always try to leave my plane on its side when I'm not using it.
No, it's not just you. I was taught to always put it on it's side during school woodwork lessons. Then I watched a few Paul Sellars videos. He discussed the issue on one of his livestreams. I can't remember all the reasoning, but he put forward a good case for placing it on it's sole plate. So, I decided to go the Paul Sellars route. The difference in practice? Almost nothing, except it is marginally easier to just pick up the plane rather than flip it by 90 degrees each time you use it.
Plus, it's a nice feeling to do something 'naughty' and not get shouted at by your scary Scottish woodwork teacher. - I am such a rebel ;)
Cheers, Paul
I was thinking Cesna for a second:-)