Endless Sphere

That is where it shined.. Plenty enough range and speed for climbing all morning then light enough to forget it's electric coming back...
The smoothness and quick engagement of the torque sensing was pretty superb also.

Fyi, careful testing... Some of the combos result in backwards rotation, which makes the pedals spin backwards too, in a way that ones brain might not be ready for after being used to things freewheeling. Pays to keeps some clearance... Plus I had one that spun up backwards, the jolt knocked my repa...

Bad Hall combo? Sometimes the color codes don't match, and need to be switched around. It would explain growly startup and high no-load amp draw...
Two of mine needed to be wired green/green, yellow/blue and blue/yellow.

Edit... He beat me

Something like this maybe.. but again, just a guess.

Do you mean a missing component those should be plugged into? They look like the plugs for a low power controller, but there's so many different generic versions of what you have that's it's guesswork about your specific one, esp without more pictures.

That's how it usually works, which I know from having been service manager at an SWorks shop (not every Specialized shop is allowed the SWorks models, and they come and check on your quality control), but I know also that if you're a rich guy, buying it someplace like Hawaii where it's not in stock,...

But aside from the prettiness, it still shipped with the plastic of the gear shift housing so shrunk back from wire layer that the shifting was impossible to index because of the mushy end, which of course is terrible on crank drive. The inner wire was super kinked too, like it was already in the fu...

Maybe is what makes things suggestive... And if we ended up with the bike then we would have had something to do with it, no? I just hate bike thieves, and also think anyone who buys a bike that they should know from the too cheap price that it's stolen is an enabling turd of a cyclist, and refuse t...

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Aug 28 2020 12:31pm

Maybe stolen in the freight. Normally it is delivered fully assembled and tested at a Specialized dealer. And, people who are buying those expansive ebikes usually know what they are buying.

I was half kidding, but don't say you weren't suggesting theft was a possibility...

Def not stolen... But thanks for suggesting I hang out with bike thieves 🤦‍♂️ It's my buddys rich ass brothers bike. Neither of them are bikers, so the brother prob bought it just because it was the most expensive one... And my buddy doesn't know Sworks from Huffy... The brother mostly bought it to ...

Fyi, I'm using two 7s packs also, series-ed. I usually just bulk charge with a 14s charger, and manually balance them thru the balance plug using an rc charger set for 1s. I got the packs free from a Solowheel place, and still have the 7s BMSs from them, but they've stayed so in balance so it hasn't...

Looks like they sell one too...

210506_4re~2.jpg 210506_1re.jpg The circled black plug is what needs to be coming off your battery for balancing. I'm not sure what it's called, maybe a JST, but that's just a guess. There's adaptors you can get if your battery has a different plug, say if the charger goes to 10s, there's an adapte...

I've seen other bikes with prismatic paint (and cars, and a building in LA, and whatnot) and it was hard to capture in stills, but the illusion of depth it had as it shifted, on the curvy contours of the carbon was really eye-catching.

Usually when a buddy says "hey could you assemble a bike for me?" and doesn't even know what kind it is, that's a bad sign. This one turned out to be a 2020 Specialized S Works full carbon beauty with trippy purple/green paint that changes as you move you head.... In the pictures, what loo...

I was given 2 complete voilamart kits a guy gave up trying to install for whatever reason. They both are running great, even after doing shunt mods on both of them.

The gray wires with the matching black plugs are the self study... You temporarily plug them together for that function. Whatever the 2 rounds wire is, it's just the single orange one. 49342819247_ac6972b8c1_b.jpg It sounds more like a description of the plugs themselves, and the gauges of wire they...

Have you tried having the wheel in the air and giving it full throttle to see if there's a difference in indicated speed?

I don't know the motorino specifically, but it's usually a rectanglar metal box with a bunch of wires coming out of it. The main battery wires and power wires from the motor both lead to it. If it does have a limiter wire, it's usually a pretty thin single wire with a little black plug, plugged into...

It could be the battery management board in the new battery is set to limit the amps to protect the cells in the battery, so you're getting the higher speed from the voltage, but slow takeoff from lower amps. Fyi, speaking very generally, if you have a 36v and a 48v battery that are say 500 watt hou...

It varies a lot. Some it's as simple as disconnecting the limiter wire on the controller, if it has one, or going into the menus on the display More and more, it's getting hard to defeat as regulations have gotten stricter, so now sometimes you need a laptop and a programming cable to the controller...

It probably is close to a wash. Ultra high efficiency is great and all, but most basic controller and motors are pretty efficient to start with these days. It also seems like with how much power is packed into a modern battery, efficiency for range extension isn't as big a factor any more. 52v has b...

Would a Mod please LOCK this thread. Another thing I've noticed about trikes is there's something about the seat... It tends to get some people's heiney hairs wound up real tight... Def something to look out for. Re delta trike, yes there are some specialty, inch off the ground, more stable at spee...

Going up into the hundreds of volts, there start to be some downsides, like dying etc. The risk of an ebike killing you starts much lower than that - at about 60 volts. I was somewhat kidding with the hundreds number, and if it happened just right, yes, you're correct that 60v could get you, but it...

I would say the voltage is more about maximizing the efficiency of the components in the controller. I'm no expert, but have read there's efficiency plateaus with the fets and capacitors, but there's so many considerations, including things like trading off a little efficiency during use to get redu...