Battery connection issues

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Hi am fairly new to ebikes have bought a second hand bike and love it but battery failing. Have bought a new one and same voltage 36 v but Although connector is the same the bike won't power up. Have tested the four pin connector on the new battery and
is wired differently to the old one. Can anyone help please cheers Paul
 
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Also what is the make and model of your ebike.

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Hi many thanks for the reply. I think the connection from the new battery to the connector on the controller is the issue.the type of connector is a GX16 aviation plug. It has four pins ( male on battery and female from controller on e bike. There is only one way the aviation plug will connect together obviously in order for correct polarities to come together with the pins. I have tested the pins on the old battery and the negative and the positive pins are in a different position on both male connectors. This concludes why the battery is not connecting properly to the controller. I guess I will have to re solder the wires onto controller aviation plug to correspond with the battery male connector. The +and- are obvious but not sure about the other two wires in the plug. Wonder if you can buy an adapter. Any thoughts ? Cheers Paul
 
I don't know anything about those connectors, but once you figure out the correct wiring it is sometimes a lot easier to cut the wires back away from the plug (carefully, and keep them apart because they will be hot directly from the battery), and then just connect the proper wires by making simple wire splices. The splices can be soldered, or you can use butt connectors. I like to use butt connectors, but with some conductive silver epoxy in the connectors and on the wires before crimping.

As mentioned above I hope you haven't damaged anything by inadvertently connecting it up while the wiring was wrong.
 
Ebike fan said:
the type of connector is a GX16 aviation plug. It has four pins ( male on battery and female from controller on e bike.
FWIW, if you stick with that kind of connector, I'd swap those, becuase having a connector with exposed male pins that could be shorted together on a battery is a Really Bad Idea. I'd always use a




The +and- are obvious but not sure about the other two wires in the plug. Wonder if you can buy an adapter. Any thoughts ?
You'd have to trace the wires from the plug to the inside of the battery and the charger and / or controller, to see where they go. They might not be hooked up, or they might be sensors, or even serial data wires. Depending on what they are, if they're not correct, it could just not function, or it could damage things in the battery or controller/etc.

Also note that as others have said, if the polarity wasn't correct on the main battery/controller connection to start with, there may be damage to either or both now, especially if the batteyr power wires were connected to what might be low-voltage data lines.
 
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