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Eh? How can you be 'blinkered' by your own requirements...? I think it's you that is blinkered, other people have a pov too, live with it...

Correct, that's my point of view. Lol anybody looking to nick ebikes knows whether or not it is an ebike regardless of the battery/controller being 'hidden' in frame. So then I have to carry TWO batteries around? If I'd bought the bike I'd be upgrading it with a KT display/controller and...

The other ebike that's now sold out had a hailong on it, that was a deal-maker I think for a lot of people including me. I also did look at this bike too however do not want a custom battery.

This is also how the cheap Voltmeter/Ammeters you see on ebay calculate the current, they use I=V/R to display current across a shunt. I built one few yrs back to measure the current consumed by my slot car track for LED strips, Arduinos and other accessories and wired a GND / 5V / 12V busbar...

@saneagle - what is the controller spec for the other red/black Argos ebike you bought or is that for next weekend? :) ? It looks like it was a great deal and I kinda wished I'd bitten now ;-)

Putting a small amount of solder across shunt allows more current to flow so at lower speeds so you'll get better torque/performance going up hills.

As a 'rough guide' to tell where your battery is at using a multimeter it gives you a rough indication of what capacity you might have left, I've used it to decide whether or not to charge the battery for shorter trips so it has some use.

It's a 52V battery so 58.8V when it was new. I last fully charged in April and it was reading 58.6V, very little deterioration in capacity but then again the ebike has only done a few hundred miles and is used mostly used for pottering about with son or local trips in dry.

My £500 52V 17.5Ah Hailong with class 1 LG cells is now over 3 yrs old and still charges to 58.6 volts (I have taken great care of it and when storing it). As mentioned above - you get what you pay for...

Mental, I wonder how many times he's had that chain in the nuts...? When I was a kid was a fan of 'The Master' TV show with Lee Van Cleef. We made shuriken stars that were dangerous as ****, 4 really heavy duty sturdy razor blades and black tape was all it took to make one with 8 very sharp...

What we need is quick release chain, not quick link but a proper instant release, love to see the face on the moped cnts when you start swinging a bike chain at them after being threatened with an angle grinder...self-defence innit...

Props to that dude!

I would bin the multimeter, you are way more likely to electrocute yourself or set something on fire than you ebike battery catching fire. :oops: :( I would edit your post title to include "safe multimeter use..." too.

When it starts to heat up and spit thermal runaway has already started only option is to run, that is what LFB recommend.

I'm not sure that would help, you might steam yourself to death...

They need to consider other charging models. Let me rent the ebike for a nominal charge of maybe £5 a day then charge me on the power I use on top of that. When my battery is getting low I go to nearest battery/bike station and just swap out the battery for a fresh one in the rack.

Sadiq Khan has a Brompton...funny that...what a ctn...given he runs TFL...

A choice to hire for the day would suit me better so I can go for a ride at lunch then cycle around the parks or wherever takes my fancy in the evening then dump it back near hotel or restaurant. If you're cycling across London as a commute then yes I may well want to jump on an overland...

Indeed, another example of London base cntery...

Well, OP has previous for this...innit... :)