inrush current on the simulator is near zero apposed to max current on full throttle
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Yes.Sorry chaps, I'm back again!
Forgive my ignorance of the whole industry, but does that mean that a manufacturer could take a 1kw motor, find some sort of testing house to "rate" it at 250w then sell it to me as legal?
Do you mean by activating the password for the screen? I thought this would stop the screen being used until a password was entered or is there another password level that stops you going into the settings? I have the LCD3 and enter the settings menu quite often when zeroing the trip meter so would be handy if that would stop this from happening.it's very easy to 'lock' the speed limit to the wheels RPM but customers can force manufacturers to let them have access to the settings unless the norms specify the protected settings.
Oh really, which two wires...?So what about removing the Kunteng display from my handlebars? The controller can run without display when you short 2 wires of the display-connector.
Red and blue. I always bridge the Tx and Rx wires as well, which are normally green and yellow or white.Oh really, which two wires...?
We get people making statements like that from time to time. Until now, nobody has ever been able to provide a record of a single case. Here's your chance to change that!Plenty of riders have discovered that in Court.
Your first sentence is not true. A very high proportion of our pedelecs, imported as legal with CE markings and settings compliant with the law, have alterable LCD settings and can be made non compliant with the law. That does not make them illegal. Indeed, some have been approved in the DfT's official testing centres.If you as a rider can "readily " (ie, without tools and dismantling the thing wholesale) alter the settings then it ain't compliant, it's that simple.
they do catch people at it and do prosecute.
Links to these court cases?Plenty of riders have discovered that in Court.
Sure of that? I know folk prosecuted for cultivation of cannabis, no insurance going on to be nurses (senior site nurse practitioner) , civil servants & councillors, care workers and school governors etc. Usually employers have discretion and depending on their attitude doesn't mean it's the absolute you make it out to be.Aside from any licencing offences, no insurance is also regarded as a dishonesty offence so shows up on DBS checks - you can then kiss goodbye to ever working in public services, schools, with children, or anything sensitive that requires a DBS check in the first place.
A good friend of mine is head of roads policing for our county. He tells me that any switch, setting, menu, dongle, etc, that allows the rider to readily deviate from legal specs instantly makes in unlawful. If you as a rider can "readily " (ie, without tools and dismantling the thing wholesale) alter the settings then it ain't compliant, it's that simple. Plenty of riders have discovered that in Court.
Theoretically, reprogramming with a laptop and then reflashing the legal settings back before going back on the road would be ok, although that has yet to be tested in Court, I'm told.
He tells me they don't finger loads of dodgy ebikes, but they do catch people at it and do prosecute. Aside from any licencing offences, no insurance is also regarded as a dishonesty offence so shows up on DBS checks - you can then kiss goodbye to ever working in public services, schools, with children, or anything sensitive that requires a DBS check in the first place.
Probably the safest bet is to keep the bike legal for road use, and build a second for off road japes. I keep my Felt road legal, but I have 11 acres of land that I use my modified Trek for, and that bike never ventures out in public. Kits dont cost much so building a second bike is inexpensive, and that being the case there is no justification for not going down that route.
The odds off getting caught are small, but that is no consolation whatsoever when you do get caught.
Nor even that. This police officer is almost certainly speaking of illegal two wheelers such as mini-motos and the like that the police take off the road, nothing whatsoever to do with pedelecs.Could it be a case of "He would say that, wouldn't he"? Or have these people just been given a caution, and it hasn't gone to court?
"alter the settings then it ain't compliant, it's that simple. Plenty of riders have discovered that in Court."A good friend of mine is head of roads policing for our county. He tells me that any switch, setting, menu, dongle, etc, that allows the rider to readily deviate from legal specs instantly makes in unlawful. If you as a rider can "readily " (ie, without tools and dismantling the thing wholesale) alter the settings then it ain't compliant, it's that simple. Plenty of riders have discovered that in Court.
Theoretically, reprogramming with a laptop and then reflashing the legal settings back before going back on the road would be ok, although that has yet to be tested in Court, I'm told.
He tells me they don't finger loads of dodgy ebikes, but they do catch people at it and do prosecute. Aside from any licencing offences, no insurance is also regarded as a dishonesty offence so shows up on DBS checks - you can then kiss goodbye to ever working in public services, schools, with children, or anything sensitive that requires a DBS check in the first place.
Probably the safest bet is to keep the bike legal for road use, and build a second for off road japes. I keep my Felt road legal, but I have 11 acres of land that I use my modified Trek for, and that bike never ventures out in public. Kits dont cost much so building a second bike is inexpensive, and that being the case there is no justification for not going down that route.
The odds off getting caught are small, but that is no consolation whatsoever when you do get caught.