Need a suitable hub motor/wheel replacement for a Swytch kit

[franken]

Hi Franken
Thanks for your quick reply and the link. I see someone else on this thread has had a similar problem with motor cutting out. Looked at your link for the new kit, apparently compatible with the older wheel. So 250 quid to upgrade to the new battery / controller pack. It's a rather small battery, even the larger one and I think it would be too small. When they say 30km I take that to realistically mean about 20. (I see you have been considering ways to extend the range.) I do like the idea of mounting the new battery pack in different places as I think the handlebar mount is not really up to the job on the old model, at least in my case. I have a pretty decent pannier bag on the back so I might look into extending the various wires to the rear and carrying the battery in the rear pannier.
Cheers Pete

I'm going to see if I can have both brackets/packs on the same bike, and if I need the extra range just switch the motor cable connection between them. I will have to see what kind of range the new battery gets, but yes it's dependent on a lot of factors like how much weight you have on the bike and the terrain you're using it on. About the size of the battery, I think it's mainly just a different format than the previous model, wider and flatter. It also doesn't have a display taking up space like in the older pack. I imagine the range is probably on par with that one.

 

[peteb]

I'm going to see if I can have both brackets/packs on the same bike, and if I need the extra range just switch the motor cable connection between them. I will have to see what kind of range the new battery gets, but yes it's dependent on a lot of factors like how much weight you have on the bike and the terrain you're using it on. About the size of the battery, I think it's mainly just a different format than the previous model, wider and flatter. It also doesn't have a display taking up space like in the older pack. I imagine the range is probably on par with that one.

Be interested to see how that goes. Be good to not have to 'waste' the old battery pack. BTW if there is no display on the new packs how do you monitor the charge etc?

 

[franken]

Be interested to see how that goes. Be good to not have to 'waste' the old battery pack. BTW if there is no display on the new packs how do you monitor the charge etc?

The display is a separate plugin to the pack and is situated on the handlebar.