I've just done 19.7miles to try and deplete the battery a little. Because of snow, Tier 4 restrictions and the lack of a proper chain, I left the battery to stand for about a week at 100% charge - I wonder if that's prompted this smell? It'd invalidate the warranty if I open it up, possibly. It could be that I didn't notice it before because I had it covered with a hi-viz rucksack cover, to hide the battery and the fact that it's an ebike. Would it vent gases if kept near to a radiator? That's where it's been standing 3 or 4ft away from for a few days at 100% charge.
I'll keep the battery near the front door, I think.
It would be, but the last time I brought something up (regarding motor resistance - a little resistance is normal for these Bafangs, as I later discovered), the seller gave me the distinct impression that anything else I had issue with would also be down to "Installation error" - I think that's his standard response and get-out clause. It's easy to make this assertion stick with kits. And I won't be certain anything is wrong until I open it up, and it might be a normal level of smell. I really don't know. If it smokes less than I do, I'll continue to use it till there is an error which effects performance, because I don't want to send it back and leave myself with no transport on the basis of odours detected by an oversensitive nose.
Hmmm... if I wait for degraded performance to manifest, it's covered by the warranty. If I open it up, it won't be covered by the warranty, but I'll be safer. Choices.
Does GH keep his battery in the airing cupboard because it's smelly or to keep it warm?
It's knackerd. I doubt that it will catch fire, but something is seriously wrong. I've had that a few times when I used to repair batteries - only with pouch cells, but I got the same smell with 18650s that I opened up to see what was inside.
It's hard to know where that smell is coming from, because I have a lot of old electronics devices: phones, laptops, orphan li-ions - not least the laptop battery which I discovered is dead recently. It's the same smell that exuded froma puffy li-ion mobile bluetooth printer battery which I had to replace recently. If the area around the door (the ebike battery's present location) starts to smell, it's definitely the ebike battery and I'll have to do something - maybe I'll buy a second battery and attempt to get this one replaced... that seller seems quite slippery - not sure if that will work at all, no doubt he'll try to define it as an "Installation error", and I'll have to see what leverage I can exert in the event.
Quite right. I like to do the same for my nadgers.
