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Each material has its properties, strengths and weaknesses, benefits and drawbacks... yet still both copper and aluminium is used in flexible power cables. It's not going to fatigue to the point of failure in normal service life otherwise it wouldn't be used/be acceptable to use. It's a daft...

Says who? BS7671 doesn't say anything other than it needs to be sized according to load. If you think about it, our national network of Pylons that run for hundreds of miles invariably use Aluminium at 400kv/275kv, and they're flexing and stretching in the wind, heat and cold all the time... why...

As Big Clive did say, the supplied lead was copper coated aluminium... most energy flows around the outer of the cable, so it's not anything like as inefficient as pure aluminium. If your VTOman supplies are anything like my Aferiy and Bluetti, they're not earthed anyway (only the bigger...

I agree 100% - sometimes product is defective, and sometimes the low voltage tracks haven't been separated by cutting the board... no doubt, there are some either willfully or ill-educated manufacturers out there. But consider this... Vevor is a major importer of many Chinese products for...

I've worked with many professional photographers in Central London studios over the years. The leads supplied for any product, even the most expensive, are often included in the box "gratis" - sufficient to make the product work - but they too are often just basic/"shite"/barely adequate, even...

You're right to question safety, but I've had reputable UK products spark too because the plug pins didn't connect tightly to the receiving socket. Like an e-bike battery, the pins spread, don't connect 100% securely, and overheat/spark/crack/burn. That can happen with everything/anything that...

I watched the video. I generally do like Big Clive, but his background is in fixing gaming machines. He's entertaining and making his living by critising cheap tat, mostly/obviously emanating from China. But sometimes his head is so far up his own arse he misses the bleeding obvious. Did he test...

There's nothing wrong with using Aluminium instead of copper... it's lighter and cheaper than copper and thus widely used for overhead transmission lines. It's less conductive sure (maybe 60%), but that doesn't make it unsuitable or dangerous if the cross-section of the cable is adequate. It's...

I think you're overthinking this. I've bought consignments of "clearance" product from Argos for stupid cheap prices before... they're just churning stock to make room for new season product.

This is why it's good policy to make friends with the guys at Halfords rather than shouting at them as many seem to do! They may have an old battery that failed and they exchanged under warranty - it's usually cells left to die rather than the BMS... but whether they'd let you have it is another...

Sorry to say the Hyena system is a "closed" CANbus system (where all the electrical bits talk to each other), like Bosch, Yamaha, Shimano et al. You're snookered in that you can't substitute generic parts, and if it's the battery BMS that's bad you'll almost certainly just need to buy a whole...

You have an active/intense network of maybe 100 dealers selling/servicing TranzX driven e-bikes spread across Germany plus the main TranzX manufacturer base/distributor based in Bad Nauheim. The UK only ever had 2 bike brands selling TranzX driven e-bikes - Ebco & Raleigh - both now...

Agree 100% when I fitted them to my Fiido folder a year or so ago* now... brake cable routed through frame with an awkward fold mech, and of course brake switches made it too much of a faff. Notice you've got some decent Clarks rotors on there too... I'm guessing they weren't standard? *EDIT...

If both bikes run with the good battery, then measure the output voltage of the bad and say here - at a guess it may be too low voltage/damaged BMS that account for 800 errors. Without digging out an old laptop I can't see what diagnostics info I still have. If the bike sometimes doesn't connect...

I may be wrong here, but I think Estarli use the KT-LCD7 on their 20" folders (from seeing one)...

If it helps, this is from the Phylion downtube battery of the same era. AFAIK the charge socket wiring convention would be the same since both downtube and rear-rack batteries use(d) the same charger. At 8.8Ah it's possibly an old Pendleton battery.

No, rattling isn't normal. If you're incapable of adjusting, fettling, or servicing your bike yourself, you'd be best to take it to a local bike shop to make sure everything is tight, working properly and as smoothly as it should. Once you reach 15.5mph the electric motor assistance stops (by...

The seller should have written proof of ownership - a receipt, Invoice, some kind of bill of sale. At just a year old, apart from being stolen, the other danger is it may be on a C2W scheme and it's not theirs to sell, so evidence they own it outright is IMO essential. Before you even travel, I...

I had that itch yesterday and actually tried to order one. But don't relax just yet... I went into Argos this morning and they say there are some still kicking about that (for me anyway) can be shipped into and collected from Sainsburys (but they can't do home delivery in my area because they...

You need to remember it's not just a battery pack - it's also an MPPT solar charge controller, has 5v USB and 12v outputs and a 240v inverter... most often pure sinewave. When you factor all those "all in one box" aspects to the battery, these power stations do offer great value... and you're...