I forgot to mention it's a 19.2ah battery, which @Nealh correctly deduced as containing LG MH-1 cells. After the 1 year warranty ran out, I opened it up to discover he was correct. I ran the battery down completely once, reasoning that with laptop and phone batteries one doesn't always get full capacity, until that's done at least once... and the battery got very hot. I might do that again - the 45+ mile journeys are rare, primarily because of concerns of causing battery damage. I do hope my LG MH-1 cells are not fake! I've just looked at the ODO: 1,581 miles. I'll be in the maket for a spare battery in about a year, and would get a em3ev if they were compatible with my existing battery mount. I dicovered last night that because my battery is on the rear rack, it's incapable of ascending a 45 degree incline. The motor had no problem, but the balance of the bike was thrown off by the rear rack battery. Having spent hours digging, I enjoyed my recovery kebab on a hilltop overlooking the city, basking in moonlight... and took these 30 and 60 second exposures with my phone. On long exposure, reflective areas glow, and the aluminium frame reflects green reflected moonlight from the grass. It's great that my bike still folds for train and bus commutes.That's about right for 36v, a year+ and some miles covered, so not bad, what cells(brand) do you know? Whether its make any difference, but I always before summer, ride out locally till the battery hits LVC or near as possible, then give it a few hours rest then full 6 hours + an hour on green light, it may or may not add a better cell balance and then most of the time I keep my batteries topped up sometimes full others removed just full, say around 52v[40-41v for 36v] I have 3x batteries 2x36v one was one cell missing from the start but effectively it was free so can not moan, the other 36v is now 7 year old although not used as much I tried to run it for a miles a week but it still does 20 miles(25 miles new) and charges to 42v the other 41.5v - my 48v-er 2 year old and does 30 miles charges to 54.6v and uses LG blue cells a Chinese version made by LG for the internally business to OEM suppliers (apparently) sold by BMS battery, cheap as well, but no issues.
What AH is that, that's awesome mileage, although mid drives are better, I think for range.
There is defo some messed up people selling counterfeit, however I can not see them going into ebike batteries and they are normally some small cell in a shell and are an actual con/scam - low spec are normally made for cheaper power tools, single 18650 flash lights and the vape pen market and are not inherently bad but not designed with high amp draw that motors use some do make their way into ebike batteries and some poor soul somewhere will get one, I would hope that anyone in the ebike supply chain worth their salt would stay clear. I think, I could possibly be talking out of my bottom now from bits I picked up in the early days of vaping.
Yep defo worth spending a few quid on a harden steel lock, it may not stop em but they may think twice and pick an easer mark. The amount of people I see with a £700+ bike and a 99p home bargains combo lock is truly mind blowing.
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